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From: barbarajfn@newsguy.com (Barbara Needham)
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Subject: Re: Nit=picks in Legends II (Possibly a spoiler?)
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:03:43 -0800
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Susan <ask@me.spamblock> wrote:
> Barbara Needham wrote:
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> > Oh, well, a kilobyte isn't really 1,000 bytes, either.
>
> I'm not sure if that was intentionally making my point or not. :)
> Because a kilobyte being 1024 is actually correct but sometimes
> interpreted as not being so, too. (In binary, 'kilo' actually stands
> for 2^10 of something, not 10^3. They end up being numbers that can be
> approximated by the decimal equivalents, but they aren't quite the same.)
Yes.. it was intentionally making your point. ...
Now, would you please explain the scientific basis of threadfall
patterns, including night falls; give references and explain
thoroughly... ;)
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