Y2K

Dave Berry daveb at TARDIS.ED.AC.UK
Wed Jan 5 16:43:58 EST 2000


At 09:11 05/01/00 , Richard Lockwood wrote:
>Isn't it ironic that computer users have shortened '2000' to 'Y2K'?  Surely
>that was what caused the whole problem in the first place?

Especially as 2K is actually 2048.

(1K = 2 to the power of 10 = 1024).

Dave.

Dave Berry,  www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~daveb



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