Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:41:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Evan Champion" <evanc@concer.to>, "Luigi Rizzo" <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Peter Wemm" <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c Message-ID: <199810301641.IAA00430@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:32:37 MST." <199810301532.IAA21575@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> "Evan Champion" writes:
> : The correct SI prefix for kilo is 'k', so therefore it should be kb/s for
> : kilobits per second, and kB/s for kilobytes per second.
> :
> : Some people argue that a capital K should be used to denote a factor of 2^10
> : instead of 10^3, but no one ever complains about the equally ambiguous (and
> : much worse in terms of error) mega ('M') and giga ('G') prefixes. Because
> : of this I tend to consider 'k' to be the correct prefix, either in base 2 or
> : 10.
> :
> : There is no prefix K in SI; the SI unit K is, of course, Kelvin.
>
> K is the prefix for 1024, not Kelvin. m == Milli as a prefix and m ==
> meters as a unit of measure. This is a common extnetion to SI that
> goes back at least 30 years.
So what's the SI extension for 2**20 and 2**30? I don't buy it; this
is laziness incarnate. 8)
(Yay, another units flamewar. No work for me today!)
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