Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 05:23:56 +0100 |
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On January 2, 2002 09:17 pm, Timothy Covell wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:17, Jonathan Amery wrote: > > In article <3C2315D6.40105@purplet.demon.co.uk> you write: > > >Engineers not (yet) being familiar with the relatively new SI (and IEEE) > > >binary prefixes is just about acceptable. "Engineers" that misuse k/K > > >and (worse!) m/M should be in a different field entirely. The SI system > > >is generally taught as basic science to pre-teenagers. There is no > > >excuse! > > > > How many of them learn it though? > > > > Jonathan (occasionally guilty of s/kB/KB/ himself). > > For the 10th time, the K v. k issue is due to the standards > body ignoring common sense and following tradition instead. > All positive powers of ten should have upper-case letters > (D,H,K,M,T,P) > and negative powers of ten should use lower-case letters. > (d,c,m,n,p)
So if the box says '16 mB' flash, that's 16 millibytes, right?
> The KB meaning 2^10 B instead of 10^3 B is just plain dumb, > and that's why the standards body tried to fix it with KiB. > But again, this solution was considered to look and sound > goofy and to be based on stupid mathematical games; > hence this whole long thread. <rant>A thread which has shown > to me that most comp. sci. folks lack common sense and > are pendantic to the max.</rant>
Yes, true, and?
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