Quote: "OS's look at a Megabyte as being 1,048,576 bytes to the Megabyte.. Memory companies etc consider a megabyte to be 1,000,000 bytes to the megabyte.. This is the reason if you get a 20gb hard drive, it'll never have a full 20gb in it, same with say memory stick duo's etc."
nope that isn't the reason, the reason is something called formating(rings a bell?) basically you have say 20gb of hd space and i think it is something like 10 or 15% is taken up by the file allocation table, so yes you have 20gb of space but only around 19 once you have formated - other wise it wouldn't know where all the files were
Memory companies do not look on MB as 1,000,000, well atleast not the cruical chain
If i remember there are two different types of MB, japanese and british / american, japenese ssays that it is 1,000,000 whilst british / american say that it is 1,048,576. IMHO the british / american way is correct because it is all done from the base of two(binary) where as the japenese do it so it is easier for them to handle
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