Re: [PLUG] Copying files to multiple volumes

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:32:07AM -0400, brent timothy saner via plug wrote:
> On 10/29/20 11:24, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:48:57AM -0400, brent timothy saner via plug wrote:
> >> it's not from lack of trying.
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data)
> >>
> >> you can thank disk manufacturers for not following proper notation.
> > 
> > It's not just them. Binary and decimal are used interchangeably by
> > most people, and hardly anyone uses kibi/mebi/gibi/tebi. As those
> > articles make clear, the differences are going to grow dramatically as
> > storage increases.
> 
> why do you think most people use the improper notations?

Because when you see a number like 4,000,588,029,952 it's a lot easier to
say "that's 4 terabytes" than to divide by 1,099,511,627,776 in your head?

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