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    SubjectRe: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
    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.

    Leon.
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