I've got something big planned....

[MistressValerie1]

I'm glad to be of help 🙂

To make matters even more confusing in the USA, computer manufacturers refer to a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, but to programmers a GB means 1,073,741,824 bytes, so your "30 GB" hard disk really holds only 27.9 GB <.<

 

[nessonite1]

My life is in bits and PCs....

Thanks for that HDS. Utterly useless but I've always wondered what lay beyong a terabyte. 🙂

 

[tequilafiction]

Thanks to MissyVal for solving the translation issue. Actually, I came across an interesting tidbit...in 1974, by decree of the Prime Minister, the British switched to the American usage of the word billion (one billion = 1 * 10^9) largely because Americans insisted that $1,000,000,000 was equal to one billion dollars. Here's a link to where I found that:

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html

- tf