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[Erik Max Francis]

Dan Bishop wrote:

> They must have gotten the idea from floppy disks, which also use a
> 1024000-byte "megabyte".

It's pretty common industry-wide.  Memory is measured in binary prefixes 
(x 1024), but disk space and bandwidth are measured in decimal prefixes 
(x 1000).

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