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bestouff
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Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?
This is the only real answer. You wouldn't buy a 29.8GB stick of RAM, and because of the addressing it wouldn't work very well. But marketers can get away with a 29.8GB stick of flash, so they do and sell that as 32GB.
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