alt Hacker NewsIt's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.
"1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.
It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.
"1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.
With the GNU Units program, I have this defined in my ~/.units: "floppyMB 1000 KiB"
Is it useful? Perhaps not, but you can use it to translate "1.2 floppyMB", "1.44 floppyMB" into other units.