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0 pointstormeh9y ago0 comments

>32 bit integers for file offsets, so the largest possible mnesia table (for now) is 4Gb

Do they mean 4GB? Surely 0.5GB/4Gb is a bit small even for 32bit?

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simoncion9y ago

> Do they mean 4GB [rather than 4Gb]?

"No one" measures sizes that aren't network throughput numbers in bits. "Everyone" uses bytes. :)

And I mean -honestly- if you were shooting for the Pedant badge, you should have also quibbled about GB vs GiB. ;)

majewsky9y ago

I'm always amused by how people find the "quibble about GB vs. GiB". The difference between a GB and a GiB is 7.3%, and it gets worse for the ever more common larger prefixes (12.6% already for a pebibyte). Might be my background in physics, though.

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