On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 19:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought it was fairly common to use > "k" for 1000, "K" for 1024, etc (mnemonic: upper case for the larger > multiplier).
Well, that only works for K vs. k: the SI prefix for mega is M (meaning 10^6), not "m". Similarly for "G". Why it is "impractical" to use the IEC prefixes? -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
