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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Because KB MB and GB mean different things than KiB MiB and GiB.
>
> K = 10^3, Ki = 2^10
> M = 10^6 Mi = 2^20
> G = 10^9 Gi = 2^30
Why not use Knuth's (good) suggestion for differentiating these prefixes?
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html
Page down to the ``What is a kilobyte?'' section. Note where he says that
bad ideas don't have to be accepted simply because they are the standard.
- --
Mike
"The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power
into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit
yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian."
-- Murray Rothbard
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