[Techtalk] Megs in a Gig?

[Carla Schroder]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 1:38 pm, ed orphan wrote:
> How many megabytes are in a gigabyte?
> I have been told it is 1,000 megabytes,
> but I think it must be 1,024.   Y/N ?
> In terms of a power of 2, what would be
> the exponent for one gigabyte?
>   I want to get this cleared up once and
> for all. I'm tired of argueing about it with
> a certain person who knows-it-all.
> Thanks.
> 

This must be Techtalk's week for hot topics! This page should be helpful:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

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