So is Mi what we call a short stack ? Elardus, definitely with syrup and butter
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 3, 2013, at 1:30 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/03/2013 08:50 AM, R.S. wrote: >> W dniu 2013-01-03 15:17, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: >>> Scott Ford wrote: >>> >>>> That's a lot of pancakes >>> >>> With or without sugar/syrup? ;-D >> >> Which ones? >> I prefer 8" pancakes without syrup. >> I don't like those small 3,5" pancakes, sold in round packs of 1024. >> >> BTW: We have "decimal" MB and "binary" MiB. >> So, what is binary form of "a lot of" > In that context the "B" is specifically "Bytes", The "M" and "Mi" prefixes > are universal, so "Mi-anything" or "Mebi-anything" would still be applicable > for a binary prefix. I guess the issue would become whether there is a > standard unit for "pancakes", although the example above could also just be > stated as "1 Kibi pancakes". One could choose to use "Mi" or other binary > prefixes with any of the conventional units of volume; but since there is no > legitimate reason for counting volume in binary, don't expect comprehension > by anyone except science nerds. > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
