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pornjacker
According to the standard, technically a megabyte (MB) is a power of ten, while a mebibyte (MiB) is a power of two, appropriate for binary machines. A megabyte is then 1,000,000 bytes. A mebibyte is the actual 1,048,576 bytes that most intend.
It was mislabeled in the first place and now they are correcting it.
mega (power of 10) should never have been given to a power of 2 unit.
[This message has been edited by wiZd0m (edited 01-08-2002).]
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