@ianfontinell said in Torrent page says 1.19GB but my torrent is 1.28GB:
Since we're dealing with the word kilo that is used for international measurement, we'd assume that has a value of 1000. But since in this case we're dealing with digital data that is presented and stored in binary format, we need to base 2 instead of base 10. So instead of 10, 100, 1000 we go gor 2, 4, 8, 16... 1024... 2048, etc.
But it's important to notice that, although the binary is pretty much the standard used for most operating systems and programs, the international system measurement still exists, can be used and most definitely is used arbitrarily, creating this kind of confusion we're dealing with here.
In the digital world the one glaring (and often misleading) exception to the binary rule is storage (disk). Vendors of that tend to use the standard 1000's rather than the 1024's, no doubt because it makes their disk units seem larger... Just something to know when you buy a 1 TB disk that your O/S claims only has ~975 GB of space.
analogy.
