From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 30 08:52:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29542 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29536; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00547; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810301652.IAA00547@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:43:15 +0100." <5885.909765795@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:52:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message <199810301636.IAA00382@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > > >We've had this one before. K is kelvin, a measure of temperature. k > >is kilo, the SI 'about one thousand' unit. > > I think SI is a bit more specific than that... I'm sure it is. 8) Common usage has us abusing the k, M and G multipliers to imply their nearest power-of-two equivalent in the context of things counted in power-of-two fashion. My point was that K is contextually an orphan like "meter" or "humor" in typical American usage. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message