[conspire] output from gparted doesn't explain missing GiBs
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Apr 1 18:26:43 PDT 2010
Quoting Darlene Wallach (freepalestin at dslextreme.com):
> *argh*!!! Nothing like making things confusing! The UK and most other
> countries seem to make more sense to me.
That's why I'll often say "thousand million" rather than billion.
The Yanks merely think I'm being a little eccentric but correctly
understand what I mean. For everyone else, the terminology's dead-on.
For 10^12 and up, I just fall back on exponential notation or metric
prefixes.
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