Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:38PM
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> The correct answer in metric is 9.98 Gg (gigagrams).
10 gigagrams. It's a rough estimate of 500 tons per story.
But tonne is a perfectly good "unit officially accepted for use with the SI". If you're willing to use "minute" and "liter" you should be fine with tonne.
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by Joker_vD on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:07PM
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> Where do you see that?
Precisely where you've described; I've also seen "du" use it once, although it normally uses 1 KiB blocks (one of the very few things that I agree with rms on).
> 512-B sectors for hard drives and flash drives,
They've been using 4 KiB sectors since 2011; the 512-bytes sectors are emulated in the controller: [0].
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by mangamadaiyan on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:19PM
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Older SCSI HDDs allowed you to format them with whatever sector size you wanted. Sector sizes that were greater than 512 bytes were not uncommon.
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by mangamadaiyan on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @09:26PM
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This is the quickest (indirect) reference I could find:
> we're still measuring disk sizes in half-kibibytes by default
Where do you see that? Marketing and operating systems always measure disk sizes in bytes (or KB, KiB, MB, etc.), not sectors. Only in low-level tools like some hex editors and disk partitioners do I see data measured in sectors.
> the sector sizes have actually been 4/8 KiB for years
512-B sectors for hard drives and flash drives, yes. But I'm too young to recall whether older hard and floppy disks had varying sector sizes. I can say, though, that CD's sector size is either 2048 bytes (data mode), 2324 bytes (XA), or some other value in other modes.