command "free -b"

[Joachim Backes]

reading the man page of the command free with option -b:

   The  -b  switch  displays  the amount of memory in bytes

But: I have 2 Gigbyte memory machine, and the command "free -b" displays 2109034496.
But (((2109034496/1024)/1024)/1024) is not the integer 2.

Can somebody explain this? BIOS effect?

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