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1 GB = 1 GiB when you don't know what you're dealing with: take a look at the 1.44 MB floppy per example.

1.44 MB = 1.44 B * 1000 * 1024

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121839

I remember wondering why anyone called them 1.44MB. I could understand 1.38MB, and I could understand 1.457664MB, but where in hell did 1.44MB come from?

Now I realize that they mixed 2^10 and 10^3 in the same sentence. Thanks for finally answering a question that's been in the back of my brain for 20+ years!

What they really meant was "2880 512-byte sectors". :-)

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