Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 03:43 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > What are you talking about? We all know that the *precise* meaning of > kilo is 1000. The point is that the term was also co-opted, since there > was not a better term. If you are talking about a contract, I would > expect that the *precise* meanings of words are being used, along with > definitions of any words where there could be ambiguity.
When I use a computer program, I don't want to wonder whether it uses precise units or approximate ones. A computer is a damn stupid machine and it will never know whether I need precision. Which is why it should *always* do things the precise way. > Why do you think that the marketing materials for most hard drives > include the note that 1 GB = 1 000 000 000 bytes? Maybe because they are sold in the US, one of the 3 countries where SI units are not standard? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.