Charles, Our absolutely right...a lot of mis impressions in this industry ...and lately because of the Net ..there seems to be a lot of no rtfm
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 3, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Canonical! I like it: > > 3. authorized; recognized; accepted. > 4. (of a mathematical equation, coordinate, etc.) in simplest or standard > form. > -- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/canonical > > INTFMT(CANON|SCALED) > > Thanks everyone for your help. > > Some more helpful than others. Might I humbly observe that some people here > are more fond of posting their favorite answer than of reading the question? > Why the obsession with kibi, mibi, etc.? (Rhetorical question -- no need to > prolong the thread.) There are many, many examples of imprecision in our > industry and our world. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT - What is the proper term for "K" notation? > > On 5/2/2013 9:55 PM, Charles Mills wrote: >> The code is done LOL. Nope, no options. What you get is what you get. >> Customers are happy with it. I now have a need to be able to turn it >> OFF (not customer unhappiness; machine parsing: machines are happier >> with 7867543225 than with 7.86G). So now I need a name for it and for >> its negation. > > Writing an integer in full is referred to as canonical form, thus the > shortened format would be a non-canonical form. You probably want something > shorter, or easier for the non-specialist to understand. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
