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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 1kB = 1024 bytes.
>
> 1MB = 1024*1024 bytes.
>
> Everybody who claims anything else is just an annoyance to the rest of the 
> world, who is not clueless, thank you very much.
>
> And hard disk manufacturers be damned, and should burn in hell.

Don't blame the hard disk people too harshly.  The insanity
dates back to floppy disk days, where they marketted 1440kB
disks as 1.44MB.

I wonder if 700MB CD-ROM and 4.7GB DVD-R are also in decimal
bytes.  I am too lazy to check ;-)