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I kind of feel like we should be able to use scientific notation for this

300GB hardrive becomes 300 10^9 bytes or 3 10^10. 32GB or memory becomes 32 2^30, or 2^35.

No ambiguity at all, and if you're spending hundreds of dollars for hardware, you should at least be able to grasp exponentiation.



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