K3b sees 4.7GB DVD+R as 4.4 GB

[Craig McLean]

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Tim wrote:
> 
> Toralf Lund:
>> Not really. People who say 1kb is 1024 bytes will also say that 1Mb is
>> 1024kb. They don't change their minds about the factors in the middle
>> of it all.
> 
> Unfortunately, that only works if they're consistent (which not
> everybody is, and why we have this mess), and if you have such clues to
> fall back on.  For instance, if they only ever mention the term MB, you
> don't know what they're referring to.
> 
> There's only one example I can come up with that makes virtually useless
> use of the kilo prefix (and other multiplier prefixes), and that's in
> computing.  Everything else is consistently the same:
> 
> 10km = ten thousand metres
> 10kV = ten thousand Volts
> 10kg = ten thousand grams
> 10kB = something vague and useless
> 

Excuse my potential ignorance, but I thought that Kilobyte and its ilk
were deprecated in favour of the binary prefixes Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, Pebi &c.

i.e.:
1 Kibibyte = 1024 bytes
1 Mebibyte = 1024 Kibibytes
and so on...

Ref: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kibibyte.html

C.

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