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Re: 180gb Drive Format ?



> Correct. It is the same as Miles and Nautical Miles.
Except that the disk manufacturers probably do this to make their disks
appear bigger, and there was probably no such malice involved in the
definition of a mile. A nautical mile, OTOH, is a sensible measure of
distance from an aviation or maritime point of view (being 1 minute of 1
degree of the earth's latitude)

Paul



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