Re: RMAN: invalid size at "list backup;"

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:46:27 +0200
Message-ID: <de4kb3$eq1$1@news.BelWue.DE>

Frank van Bortel wrote:

>>Time to polish up the good ole' calculator, isn't it?
>>
>>How much bytes is one KB, how much bytes is one MB?
>>
>>But to be fair, I believe the correct term now is MiB,
>>so there is actually room for confusion.

>
>
> Eh? How many byte in a MiB, then? 1,000,000?
>
> And to the OP; the sizes are not 50% off; there are truncated.
> If you still believe that 1 MB holds 1024 kB, and 1 kB is 1024byte,
> that is.

Google for Mebibyte. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but there it is...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Mebibyte.html

Cheers
Holger Received on Fri Aug 19 2005 - 07:46:27 CDT