Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Memory units are kB, MB, GB. The factor is 1024. >
Then shouldn't the factor be 1000? If the factor is 1024, then the units should be KiB, MiB, GiB per IEEE 1541 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541) and others. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the general approach with -hackers seems to be towards compliance where practical. Regards, Paul Bort ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
