kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>> kony <s...@spam.com> wrote
>>> jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk <jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote

>>>>> So its a different number system.

>>>> No, 2^x cannot even be binary. The number 2 doesn't even exist in binary.

>>> The significant detail is that 1,000,000
>>> being called megabyte is invalid.

>> that's true but that's a different point to the one I made

>>> Because byte only exists in a different system, not a decimal
>>> system, the two different system terms can't be intermixed.

>> no.. Byte means 8 bits. But you can count bytes in any number system.

> Not really,

Corse you can and the industry does too.

> it is an invalid expression to have more than
> one system mangled into a single quantity.

Have fun explaining comms speeds which are universally
decimal counts of bytes/sec etc when bytes are used.

>> And a Byte itself is nothing to do with a number system at all really.
>> It's an "articificial" unit to count 8 binary digits. It's a concept. It
>> doesn't really exist dependent or as part of a number system.

> Wrong, it is just as real a part of a number system as any other
> term, or if you want to call it a "concept", so is any numerical term.

Its just the item being counted. That is never part of the number system.

>>> Similarly a kilobyte is never 1000, and a byte itself is never 10 bits.

>> that parallel is absurd.

> Nope, it would be equally absurd to put byte in front of a decimal
> system value. Can't mix two systems in one expression.

Corse can, and its done all the time most obviously with
comms speeds which never use the binary multiplier.