Re: free space in oracle 7

In article <1994Feb14.133119.1_at_cbr.hhcs.gov.au> pihlab_at_cbr.hhcs.gov.au writes:
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>Just to be pedantic:
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> if "free_mb" is supposed to be in MegaBytes then:
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> A MegaByte = 1024 x 1024 bytes
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> = 1,048,576 bytes
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> NOT 1e6 bytes
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> Computer scales work in powers of 2 NOT 10.
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Hah! But Mega means nothing in base 2. Therefore you will just have to accept that a MB is 2^20 by convention - not for any good reason.

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