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Old 07-06-2016, 07:55 AM   #165
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Originally Posted by Glorfindel View Post
Technically, 0.5 GB is 512, not 500

Also I haven't done anything with my Sig for a while
Since the GiB (binary gigabytes) standard was adopted to eliminate this confusion, 0.5 GiB is 512, but 0.5 GB is 500. Though before the new standards, they were both GB, which caused confusion. WikiPedia explains it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

The hard drive manufacturers prevailed and the systems and network programming folks had to change their unit designators to stay current.
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