Maybe it's my physics background, but I never understood the "base 2 is more logical" argument. The only time I care about file sizes is "how many files can I fit on this {DVD,external drive,iPhone}?"
It's so much easier to translate GB to MB by multiplying by 1000 and vice versa.
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Maybe it's my physics background, but I never understood the "base 2 is more logical" argument. The only time I care about file sizes is "how many files can I fit on this {DVD,external drive,iPhone}?"
It's so much easier to translate GB to MB by multiplying by 1000 and vice versa.
Easier if you think in base 10 I guess. Computers, and many programmers, don't though.
Exactly. After you have been programming for a while, numbers like 256 or 1024 appear as perfectly round numbers.