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Now we have two different measurement systems in the same OS - RAM is measured in base-2 go check, I'll wait and hard drive space in base-10.

Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

All file sizes are measures in base-2 based numbers.

Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

I agree that Apple decided to "cave" into the HD manufacturers' obstinance on not going base-2 for units of byte measurements for the sake of consistency, but that does not make Apple accurate in the capacity reporting of HDs with Snow Leopard.

Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

For example, "- log base-2 (x) 1.0" instead of "more likely than not" as Dembski does in his definition of Specified Complexity.

A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

Data has always been measured in base-2; All apple is doing is causing confusion and buying into HDD manufacturers' marketing gimmicks.

Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

You will still have to denote it mebi- or kibi- to get a base-2 equivalent.

Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

This ridiculous "standard" that you speak of has never been accepted into the mainstream for using the new prefixes to denote base-2 multiples because people recognize the "standard" as retarded on face value.

Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

In reality, the mega- and giga- prefixes are part of the metric system and by definition identify base-10 multiples – not the near-equivalent 1024 that fits base-2.

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The results of the second version of the program are hardly surprising; both .1 and .3 are indeterminate in base-2 representation such that when added together they exactly produce the .4 indeterminate sequence.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

In this particular example .4 in base-10 is .0110011011… in base-2 and is in fact indeterminate.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007