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I have often thought it was neat that, since we don't have 16 fingers and thereby come across hexadecimal numbers honestly, at least there is a nice, close relationship between the 2 and 10 radix systems: 10^3 ~= 2^10 (kilobytes) 2.4% difference 10^6 ~= 2^20 (megabytes)...

Anyone here old enough to remember Byte Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_magazine)? I sure do. Especially the wonderful cover illustrations by Robert Tinney (http://www.tinney.net/). I subscribed for about a dozen years, if I recall correctly, from 1978 into the late 80's or early...