Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:57:14 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@csh.rit.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001111945370.74869-100000@res112b-165.rh.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Because KB MB and GB mean different things than KiB MiB and GiB. > > K = 10^3, Ki = 2^10 > M = 10^6 Mi = 2^20 > G = 10^9 Gi = 2^30 Why not use Knuth's (good) suggestion for differentiating these prefixes? http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html Page down to the ``What is a kilobyte?'' section. Note where he says that bad ideas don't have to be accepted simply because they are the standard. - -- Mike "The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian." -- Murray Rothbard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0i Comment: Charset: noconv iQA+AwUBOHvRa+G+Jfm/z6tNEQKeQgCYsgMjGJuEIzSdGuOZhzD9bGyCEACfWGXU If3lwGo63sD2JmuIWRkvwbw= =gxx6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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