Re:Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?
by 300bps on Sunday April 06, 2014 @12:10PM
(#7541391)
Why did hard drive manufactures move from a (misnamed) base 2 to base 10?
A similar question is - why do all gas stations sell gas for x.yy9? It's impossible to sell something for 9/10 of a penny but in the U.S. they all do it.
If you ask the people doing it, you'll get the answer that it serves the consumer better, it's just a coincidence that it happens to make their product look artificially better/cheaper/whatever than it is.
A similar question is - why do all gas stations sell gas for x.yy9? It's impossible to sell something for 9/10 of a penny but in the U.S. they all do it.
If you ask the people doing it, you'll get the answer that it serves the consumer better, it's just a coincidence that it happens to make their product look artificially better/cheaper/whatever than it is.