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Active Forums => QB64 Discussion => Topic started by: Richard on December 12, 2020, 10:21:27 pm

Title: (very trivial) QUIZ 🎄 --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
Post by: Richard on December 12, 2020, 10:21:27 pm: Answer:- refer to link

https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2276.75#lastPost (https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2276.75#lastPost)
Title: Re: (very trivial) QUIZ --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
Post by: SMcNeill on December 12, 2020, 10:23:51 pm: https://docs.ukcloud.com/articles/other/other-ref-gib.html

There’s GB and GiB... two different counting methods.
Title: Re: (very trivial) QUIZ --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
Post by: SpriggsySpriggs on December 14, 2020, 01:19:29 pm: GiB = 1024 ^ 3
GB = 1000 ^ 3

In Windows, GB = 1024 ^ 3

Response:
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2276.msg126693#msg126693 (https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2276.msg126693#msg126693)
Title: Re: (very trivial) QUIZ --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
Post by: doppler on December 16, 2020, 02:13:06 pm: When Western Digital sells a Hard Drive. Calling it 32GB and the capacity is smaller than Maxtor's 32GB.
Bam, nailed that one....