> It seems from my experience that a "gigabyte" is 1,073,741,824 bytes if you're using
> them, but only 1,000,000,000 bytes if you're selling or otherwise offering them.
>
> So: to borrow coloring from Mars Matrix, you might want to clarify whether you are
> allotted 268435456000 bytes per month, or only 250000000000 bytes.
>
> Also, selling things by the month is weird. Better to do the bandwidth-heavy stuff in
> February.
The golden rule for me is using Gigabytes as 1,000,000,000 bytes only for communications and storage in hardware stuff (bandwidth and hardware capacity). Gigabytes as 1,073,741,824 bytes is exclusively for storage on filesystems so you don't waste bits with rounded numbers. Makes sense, because otherwise you would be wasting 6 different bit combinations for every 4 bits stored.
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guess i should slow down
