On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:12:17PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:23 +0200, Lapo > Luchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > lapo> As it goes 1000 bytes is 1 kilobyte (1 kB) > lapo> while 1024 bytes should be called 1 kibibyte (1 KiB). > > That's what I would call newspeak...
That's a strange stance, since kilo has meant 1000 back to at least the mid 19th century: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/history-si/ (Why are we talking about this on monotone-devel?) -- Nathaniel -- "But suppose I am not willing to claim that. For in fact pianos are heavy, and very few persons can carry a piano all by themselves." _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
