For American numbers

[Dan Bishop]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> >  Only for hard drive manufacturers, perhaps.
> >
> >  For the rest of the computer world, unless I've missed
> >  a changing of the guard or something, "kilo" is 1024
> >  and "mega" is 1024*1024 and so forth...
>
> Yes.  Unless you work in the telcoms industry, where, for example if
> you order a 2 Mbit/s line you'll get
>
>   2 * 1024 * 1000 bits / s

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