Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:58:42 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) |
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On Jan 22 2007 10:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing >> to accept new terms? For my taste, kib and mib are even easier to >> speech, easier than {KiLoBytE} resp. {MeGaBytE} or KaaaBe / eMmmBe. > >There is too much legacy code and systems around for it to ever be >nonambiguous. It is too late to fix it, and the units that this >"standard" came up with just sound too stupid to be taken seriously.
For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.
>You also don't pronounce units just because it looks like you can. So >KiB is not easier than KB. Heck most people in speach wouild just call >them Ks (kays or something like that). And MBs just become Megs. Same
kegs perhaps? :)
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