https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5647
--- Comment #7 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2011-11-07 18:47:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > Since it says 50kB, to me that's 50 * 1024; no question. > > This "k=1,000" view was introduced by engineers who don't understand and are > ignorant of computer science's 50+ year history that a kilobyte has always > been > 2^10 or 1,024 bytes. > > I agree: Bug is invalid/won't fix. First time I ever saw this was from MARKETING people for HDs so they could define 1000 * 1000 * 1000 as a GB instead of 1024 * 1024 * 1024 so that drive could be advertised at "larger" than actual capacities. Apparently IEEE is a shill for them as well ;-) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte) You'll find this type of warning on probably every storage item on the planet (this one is from Western Digital): As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. In the end, I blame marketing people. Even if I'm wrong, I still blame marketing on general principle. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.
