Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] stupid computer question
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Thu Jun 7 18:27:26 2007
References: <3e7573d40706061914n36b55d93g3ebc783c0f3a860c@mail.gmail.com> <BCF2CFE5-D88F-4A0E-9F5A-78E782DFAD4D@bex.net> <078C8342964897F902B7FC20@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
Spot on, Brian! Wish I, who travel a bit, had thought of the analogy.

--howard


On Jun 7, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Brian Reid wrote:

> Howard Ritter is exactly right in every detail, but I always think  
> of this issue as being like currency exchange. If you are buying  
> gigabytes with dollars, they are 1024. If you are selling gigabytes  
> for dollars, they are 1000. The main difference is that the person  
> with the green eyeshade who computes the spread (024) is in San  
> Jos?, California and not in Z?rich, Switzerland.
>
> Brian Reid
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