Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads?

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DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Good to know about MacOS and Linux. I usually never turn on the human readable mode on my distros because most are VMs.

Anyway, computer’s absolutely work best with working with numbers 2^n. That gives the most amount of space per bit. Otherwise, we would end up using the same amount of transistors for a fewer number of states. They could also greatly complicate the ALU to determine if it suddenly entered a forbidden state. Two’s compliment would certainly be much more difficult.

Submitting would be nearly impossible too

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