Messages in this thread | | | From | Jakob Kemi <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:38:21 +0100 |
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On Monday 18 March 2002 17.36, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Nayyer Tiger wrote: > > | I see that in the very latest Configure.help version, 2.76, available > > | at http:/www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ > > | Eric has decided to follow the following standard: > > | IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, Letter symbols to be used in > > | electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics. > > | and has changed all the abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to KiB, > > | Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, etc. > > | > > | Now, granted that this is the "standard", should there be some > > | discussion related to this > > | change, or is everyone comfortable with this? It certainly made me do > > | a double take. > > > > Either decision will be disliked. I don't care for the new/standard > > abbreviations, but I can get used to them, and I expect that most > > people can. > > > > Let's get over it and back to the good stuff. > > > > ~Randy > > Is it a standard or is it something in-process? The reason I ask is > that neither KB nor KiB can possibly be correct.
KiB is correct, please visit: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
There was a huge thread on this subject in dec '01. If anyone feels like bringing back this horse please at least read through that thread before we starting over again.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=linux.kernel.1008872772.2777.16.camel%40phantasy.SOMEWHERE&rnum=1
-- Jakob
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