Thread: Pedantic: Mega != 2^20
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Old December 7th, 2004
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I really don't think it's a platform issue. I'm on SuSe Linux. I think it is merely a very widespread bad habit among programmers. I have seen lots of software that uses the abbreviation MB to signify 2^20 and KB to signify 1024.
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