I demand that Magnus Holmgren may or may not have written... [snip] > Most of the time you won't have to say it. Spoken language tends to be less
> formal than written language, and 2^10 bytes still is approximately a > kilobyte (and so on up to giga, where the approximation starts to fail). So > you only have to say kibibyte when you need to be precise. If I need to disambiguate, I'll say either "real kilobyte" or something like "marketroids' kilobyte". And as for the next step up, well, "gigabytes" is a given, and it's tempting to say "giblets"... -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy local produce. Try to walk or cycle. TRANSPORT CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. Warning: do not confuse billion with billion. Thousand million or trillion? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
