Steven Cole <scole@lanl.gov>:
> I've obviously been wrong all along on this, but I had always assumed
> (incorrectly) that mega when applied to binary things really meant
> 2 to the 20th, and that the confusion came from disk manufacturers who
> chose whatever definition made their products seem bigger.
>
> So, if we really want to be pedantically correct, let's all swallow
> _really_ hard, and go all the way on this. Or, are the UGLY changes
> below actually technically wrong?
Alas, I don't know.
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