No, but that particular bit of idiocy was the inspiration for my comment. I
just took it one decimal point further.
-Original Message-
From: Tony Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 2:22 AM
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: Metric units
Mark Post wrote:
>
Mark Post wrote:
> While we're at it, why don't we just round off the value of pi to be 3.0
Do you live in Indiana?
Actually, Dr. Edwin Goodwin wanted to round off pi to any of several values
including 3.2.
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/Localgov/Second%20Level%20pages/Indiana_Pi_
Story.htm
Yeah, you're both right. While we're at it, why don't we just round off the
value of pi to be 3.0. Those pesky trailing decimals are just an accident
of history anyway.
-Original Message-
From: Carlos Villegas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:22 PM
To: Tony
Carlos Villegas snidely wrote:
> I would say that the original poster understands what he is saying, and
you clearly don't...
I'll put my computer science degree up against your business administration
and accounting degree any day.
A kilobyte has always been 1024 bytes and the choice was not ac
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:57:18PM -0800, Tony Lewis wrote:
> John J Foerch wrote:
>
> > It seems that the system of using the metric prefixes for numbers 2^n is a
> > simple accident of history. Any thoughts on this?
>
> I would say that the practice of using powers of 10 for K and M is a
> res
John J Foerch wrote:
> It seems that the system of using the metric prefixes for numbers 2^n is a
> simple accident of history. Any thoughts on this?
I would say that the practice of using powers of 10 for K and M is a
response to people who cannot think in binary.
Tony
Hi,
I read in the list archives some discussion from 2002 of changing the
units that wget uses in its output. I too would very much like to see
in the next version either metric units (K=10^3, M=10^6) or the EIC
binary system (Ki=2^10, Mi=2^20). It seems that the system of using the
metric
Hello.
I was retrieving this iso:
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I killed wget and then I resumed it with wget -c (file was downlaoded
for 2285260288 bytes)
here's the output:
--19:31:47--
ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO-image
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