[iaufwg] Final FITS review comments

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2008-04-09T09:29:25 -0400, Arnold Rots hath writ:
> Note that usually 1 kB is considered to be 2^10 B, 1 MB = 10^20 B, and
> 1 GB = 10^30 B.
> Hence it would have been correct to say that 2^31 bytes is
> approximately 2.1*10^9 bytes, but 2^31 bytes is exactly 2 GB.

we have the gigibyte (GiB), internationally chartered

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

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