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It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.

"1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.

With the GNU Units program, I have this defined in my ~/.units: "floppyMB 1000 KiB"

Is it useful? Perhaps not, but you can use it to translate "1.2 floppyMB", "1.44 floppyMB" into other units.

Probably because they have 2880 sectors.

++1

:))