Everytime this question comes up, I like to point out that contrary to common belief, decimal prefixes (as in 1kB = 1000 bytes) are MUCH more commonly used than

Everytime this question comes up, I like to point out that contrary to common belief, decimal prefixes (as in 1kB = 1000 bytes) are MUCH more commonly used than binary prefixes in the computer industry: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=35 http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=35