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To: Dave Bissett who wrote (3030)	10/16/1998 11:12:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Dave, Its has to do with how you count Megabytes.... Metric System says a Mega Byte is 10^6 bytes or 1,000,000 Bytes Computer guys like me refer to everything based on powers of 2. So 1M is 2^20 or 1048576 Bytes or 100,000 in Hexadecimal. Marketing Guys are Going to use 10^6 because the marketing # is bigger. Software and Hardware is using 2^20 which is larger than a million bytes. so the size they report is always smaller. nothing is wrong. Techincally 10^6 is the correct Metric definition. Hope this makes sense. Sean

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