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It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB. "1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kil
by LeoPanthera 9mo ago
It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.
"1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.
- chungy 9mo agoWith the GNU Units program, I have this defined in my ~/.units: "floppyMB 1000 KiB" Is it useful? Perhaps not, but you can use it to translate "1.2 floppyMB", "1.44 floppyMB" into other units.
- fuzzfactor 9mo agoProbably because they have 2880 sectors.