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crash866 t1_iu4u0ga wrote

Reply to comment by Boogyman0202 in Eli5: Where do our files go when we delete them from the trash can in our computer? by StarExact5602

Some manufacturers use base10 for size while your computer measures it is binary.

A gigabyte (GB) -- pronounced with two hard Gs -- is a unit of data storage capacity that is roughly equivalent to 1 billion bytes. In decimal notation (base 10), a gigabyte is exactly 1 billion bytes. In binary notation (base 2), a gigabyte is equal to 230 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes.

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