Michel Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: > >> On Wed 27 Aug 2003, Michel Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> It's really just a way to format a number. >>> >>> I actually found that Number::Format has a quite similar function, >>> albeit slightly less configurable. >> >> How about you patch Number::Format to do what you want to do? See >> also Number::Compare for another reason why you probably want to be >> in Number::* > > I just emailed the author
A worthy effort, indeed :) While you are at it, you might want to support the whole range of SI prefixes (note that these are *not* units, but unit *prefixes*), check out http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html to get them all. And be very careful; not everybody will agree with you that 'M' should mean 1024*1024 - communications people will insist that 64kbps is infact 64*10^3 bps, and not 64*2^10 bps. IEC tried to define new names (kibi instead of kilo for 2^10), but I seriously doubt that these will ever get wider accceptance. Also, if you look at harddisk capacity figures, some (most) manufacturers will say '80Gb' meaning 80*10^9 bytes, rather than 80*2^30. Makes the disks appear bigger than they are - standard salesman trick :) /Lars
