<div>Please be aware that there are standards for the naming of prefixes that can be applied to <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/sipm.html">units</a>.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>See for example&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/prefixes.html">http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/prefixes.html</a></div>
<div>and <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/prefixes.html#binary">http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/prefixes.html#binary</a></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>Do not confuse binary prefixes with Metric prefixes</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>eg <a href="http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html">metric prefixes</a></div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="5" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p>tera- (T-)</p></td>
<td>
<p>10¹²</p></td>
<td>
<p>1 trillion</p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>giga- (G-)</p></td>
<td>
<p>10⁹</p></td>
<td>
<p>1 billion</p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>mega- (M-)</p></td>
<td>
<p>10⁶</p></td>
<td>
<p>1 million</p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>kilo- (k-)</p></td>
<td>
<p>10³</p></td>
<td>
<p>1 thousand</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<div>and <a href="http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html">binary prefixes</a></div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="4" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p>kibi-</p></td>
<td>
<p>Ki-</p></td>
<td>
<p>2¹⁰ = 1 024</p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>mebi-</p></td>
<td>
<p>Mi-</p></td>
<td>
<p>2²⁰ = 1 048 576</p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>gibi-</p></td>
<td>
<p>Gi-</p></td>
<td>
<p>2³⁰ = 1 073 741 824</p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>tebi-</p></td>
<td>
<p>Ti-</p></td>
<td>
<p>2⁴⁰ = 1 099 511 627 776</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<div><br><br>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/07/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">adam overton</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:a@plus1plus1plus.org">a@plus1plus1plus.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>hi<br>is the math of this correct?<br>this is what&#39;s on the &#39;upload variables&#39; page: <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/">http://www.pmwiki.org/</a><br>
wiki/PmWiki/UploadVariables#UploadPrefixQuota<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $UploadMaxSize<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Maximum size for uploading files (50000 octets by default)<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Units are in bytes.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;100K: 100000;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1MB: 1000000;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1GB: 1000000000;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1TB: 1000000000000;<br><br>i&#39;m getting mixed up because I also see notes on the UploadsAdmin<br>page insisting that the following is correct:<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 100K: 102400;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1MB: 1048576;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1GB: 1073741824;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1TB: 1099511627776;<br><br><br>the math i&#39;m finding on the web is also confirming the latter...<br>wondering which one to choose...<br>thanks!<br>adam<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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