Niki on Nostr: TIL that 1.44 MB floppy disks were neither 1.44 * 1024 * 1024 bytes nor 1.44 * 1000 * ...
TIL that 1.44 MB floppy disks were neither 1.44 * 1024 * 1024 bytes nor 1.44 * 1000 * 1000 bytes, but...
1.44 * 1000 * 1024 bytes!
C in “floppy disk” stands for consistency
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2026-07-06 21:45:27 UTCEvent JSON
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