[Keith in Iowa]

Everything in computers is base 2 - binary. It's all based on bits & bytes & powers of 2... 8 bits to a byte...

2^8    2^7	2^6	2^5	2^4	2^3	2^2	2^1
256    128	64	32	16	8	4	2

thus - 1MB = 1024 bytes = 2^10 and so on...

[Terpfen]

Odd, I was always under the impression that allocation uses base-12.

Ah well, thanks for the correction.

[supercat]

Everything in computers is base 2 - binary. It's all based on bits & bytes & powers of 2... 8 bits to a byte...

I thought it was base 10 binary. (Of course, any base is base 10)