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Re^4: MWORDS limits

Maurizio Ciofalo
omega@unipa.it

On Tue Dec 2 '08 7:00pm, Alex Granovsky wrote
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>4. Finally, to avoid confusion, note that with PC GAMESS/Firefly 1 MWORDS of memory means exactly 8000000 bytes, not 8 MBytes!

To avoid any longer confusion, I would suggest both Firefly developers and users also to adopt the terms kibibyte (kiB) = 2^10, mebibyte (MiB) = 2^20 and gibibyte (GiB) = 2^30 bytes, respectively, and so on, according to the authoritative IEC definition (1998).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibytehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibytehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibytehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
Nevertheless, Dr. Granovsky's remark is still consistent with those suggestions.
Regards
Maurizio

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