Accurate measurement of weights have been recognized as important in trading and commerce for centuries. Ironically, it is only in the computer industry, where pinpoint digital precision is possible, that accurate measurement of data bytes capacity and usage are soooooooooo blurry. It started out simply due to convenience/laziness in the coindental closeness between the metric kilo and 2 raised to the power of 10. But marketers have exploited this fuzziness to incredible ranges and regulators should step in.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/
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