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You weren\'t the only one who found this useful, thanks. I got tired of
Google\'s dumbing-down of the Gb/Mb/Kb conversion. When dealing with
sectors and partitions on hard drives, Google\'s results (based on
powers of ten) can screw everything up. This, based on powers of two, is
perfect. Thank you!!


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