Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:04:22 +0100 | From | "Leon Woestenberg" <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) |
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David,
On 1/20/07, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote: > [Leon said:] > > One way of getting rid of those inconsistencies would be to follow IEC > > 60027-2 for those cases where SI is inappropriate. > > Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB flash > cards could be advertised as having 268.4MB? A 512MB RAM stick is > mislabelled and could correctly say 536.8MB? That's just plain craziness. > No, I meant to advertise it as a 256 MiB flash device and a 512 MiB flash device, as the Mi prefix has a single interpretation, that is 2 to the power of 20, as per IEC 60027-2, whereas M has not if used outside SI units.
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