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Subject: Re: silug: Azureus and Mozilla downloads bigger than normal? --
From: "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:45:08 -0600
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On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:47 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> But with each higher prefix, the different is _exponential_.
>   Kilo:  2.4%
>   Mega:  2.4^2 =  5.8%
>   Giga:  2.4^3 = 13.8%
>   Tera:  2.4^4 = 33.2%
> 
> Yes, literally 1/3rd at 10^12 Terabyte v. 2^40 Terabyte!

Bryan,

Picking a nit: That's a geometric rather than an exponential
progression.

For ISO downloads, of course, the only thing that really matters is that
the md5sums agree.

Happy New Year to All except Darl McBride :-)

--Doc

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