"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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As I said, marketing droids consider it to be 10^9; engineers
consider it to be 2^30. (some folks use GB and GiB to clarify
the distinction when speaking owing to the unwashed masses
blindly following marketing hype)


10^9 is GigaBull****.


1 KB = 1024 bytes
1 MB = 1024 KB (1048756 bytes)
1 GB = 1024 MB (1073741824 bytes)
1 TB = 1024 GB (1099511627776 bytes)