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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arp info bug?
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Date: 2 May 89 23:40:13 GMT
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In <2078@wpi.wpi.edu>, pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes:
>Oddly enough, Arp1.3's info claims that Amiga floppies are 837K.

Yes, that is extremely odd. According to my calculations, it should be:

			1760	blocks per diskette
	-  	   3	(root block, bitmap, and sector 0)
		-------
		   1757
	*		 488	data bytes per sector
		-------
		 857416	data bytes per diskette
	/     1024  bytes per K
		-------
		    837.320313		KBytes per floppy

So where are the other .320313 bytes going anyway?

-larry

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