On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:20:50 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 22/10/2019 12:11, alan_m wrote:
On 22/10/2019 11:02, Max Demian wrote:

Megapixels (and megabytes) are less than they used to be. 1,000,000
rather than 1,048,576.

Hard disks have always have always been 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes

I dont think so
Derfinitely not - what makes the uneducated think so is the FACT that
formatting eats up a portion of the drive capacity - so you do not get
a full 1,048,576 bytes of useable space out of a megabyte of hard
drive capacity. Not just hard drives - memory sticks as well.