Why is it that when you buy a gig of ram you get 1,073,741,824 (2^30)…: bawls

bawls

Aug 18, 2009 22:41

Why is it that when you buy a gig of ram you get 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes while a hard drive only gets you 1,000,000,000 (10^9) bytes?