The convention of prefixing large numbers when it comes to computer counting has been around for decades, but it was only during the last year of the last millennium that they realized it had to be standardized.Before, 1kilo byte = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes, and the difference could be shrugged off.
But with the more common uses of MB and GB, people are getting confused, and sometimes think they are being shortchanged by those who promise to sell a 20 giga byte HD, only to have it show as 18.63 GB on the OS.
Technical people just don't want to accept a different understanding of measurement when dealing with computers and not dealing with computers, especially since talking about MHz still uses 1*10^6 and not 2^20.
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It is very confusing for some, I did read months ago that a hard disk company was sued, and lost, because of this issue, glad its being sorted out, though still confusing for some that there are two systems now.
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