> Does anyone actually have a problem with kB meaning 1024 bytes and MB meaning 1<<20 bytes, etc? The manufacturers of memory and hard drives seem to have alwa

> Does anyone actually have a problem with kB meaning 1024 bytes and MB meaning 1<<20 bytes, etc? The manufacturers of memory and hard drives seem to have always had a problem with that. They’ve preferred to use KB=1000 bytes exactly, MB=10^6 bytes, GB=10^9 bytes, etc. for as long as I’ve been buying computers, which is long enough to remember when computers didn’t come with MBs.