Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
J R wrote:
Yes, ABSTR is limited to 64KiB-1.
ITYM 64Ki-1.
You may think that, but he doesn't. K and Ki are prefixes, meaningless
without a unit to modify. Kilo is the rare exception in Europe, where
it's used as an abbreviation of Kilogram as a unit of mass and
(incorrectly) weight; neither applies here.
J.R. is more right than guy before him. 64k or 64Ki can be interpreted
as numbers. In this case we talk about ABSTR, so the value is NUMBER OF
TRACKS, not bytes. It is *not* 65536B-1, it is 65536-1 tracks.
I don't know whether it is proper or "IBM approved", but IT people often
use "64k" or "16M" as numbers. No unit specified. Number only. Maybe
it's improper, but it is *common*.
Usually they mean "binary" kilo and mega, although it is not proper in
aspect of IS standard. However this is different story: for example
every RAM manufacturer use MB and GB instead of correct MiB and GiB.
BTW: In Europe we *say* "kilo" as abbreviation of "kilogram", but we
*write* it properly: "kg", so assumption about kilograms is bad shot.
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