From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 18:36:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from arnie.adacel.com.au (arnie.adacel.com.au [203.36.26.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EA9A37B404 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5542 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2002 02:50:18 -0000 Received: from intmail.adacel.com (HELO proton.adacel.com.au) (root@203.8.85.90) by arnie.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 02:50:18 -0000 Received: from hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au ([192.168.75.251]) by proton.adacel.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03659 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:37:00 +1100 (EST) Received: (qmail 7674 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2002 02:28:27 -0000 Received: from selene.wodonga.adacel.com.au (HELO adacel.com) (192.168.75.20) by hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 02:28:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3C745D8B.9090808@adacel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:38:03 +1100 From: Michael Wardle Organization: Adacel Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-us, en-gb, en, eo, de- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Wouter Van Hemel , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> <1014256250.304.66.camel@cocaine> <3C745639.8080509@adacel.com> <20020221022225.GA12900@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>>>>>There is a standard on how to represent data sizes here: >>>>>>http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html >>>>>> >>>>>>I suggest that the document is updated to consistently use this >>>>>>standard. [...] > ...I'd prefer it all (consistently) written as shown below: > > Short form Long form > ================================== > 1 MB 1 Megabyte > 1 KB 1 Kilobyte > 1 Mbit 1 Mebagit > 1 Kbit 1 Kilobit I disagree with this notation, however: - it is not my decision - provided this is used consistently, it will be better than what is used in the documentation currently Despite there being some disagreement with what the prefixes (K, M, ...) are, (byte = "B") and (bit = "b") are the most used notations. In this light, I would suggest "Kb" and "Mb" for kilobyte and megabyte in your notation. I doubt whether I will convince you in the near future that KiB, MiB, and so on are correct, but I think it would be useful to agree on a common style (such as the one you suggested, Giorgos) for FreeBSD documentation and to use it consistently. Yours -- MICHAEL WARDLE | WORK +61-2-6024-2699 SGI Desktop & Admin Software | MOBILE +61-415-439-838 Adacel Technologies Limited | WEB http://www.adacel.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message