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to: Viktor Pilpenok
from: Joe Nicholson
date: 2004-01-31 12:58:00
subject: It`s Alive!! It`s Alive

-=> Quoting Viktor Pilpenok to Pascal Schmidt <=-

 VP>> 1k*445862 = 445 _GB_ - Nice hd you've got there ;)
 PS> 445862 1k blocks is a about 440 MB. :)

 VP> How come?
 VP> 1k * 445862 = 1024b * 445862 = 466802688b = 455862mb = 445.1gb

 445,862bytes * 1K = 445,862,000bytes = 445.8megabytes

 Or in your precise multiplication, 466,802,688bytes.
 And that is 466.8megabytes, moving the decimal point
 6 places to the left instead of only 3 places (which
 would produce 466,802.688kilobytes).

 ............100 hundreds
 .........100000 thousands = kilo
 ......100000000 millions  = mega
 ...100000000000 billions  = giga

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