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Samsung re-define the gigabyte, originally uploaded by salimfadhley.
It’s awful when marketroids are allowed to pervert basic science, in this case Samsung’s willful ignorance: Everybody knows that megabytes and gigabytes are based on base-2 numbering, so one KB is not 1000 bytes but 1024 bytes. Likewise 1MB is not 1000 of those funny decimal kilobytes, but 1024 of the regular sort of KB.
This is just dumb, and I’m sure that someday in America they will get sued for mis-describing their otherwise perfectly good hard disk. I hope the marketing person who thought of this gets fired.