Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:32:04 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp i4b.c Message-ID: <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200008161633.KAA05164@harmony.village.org> <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > >Actually it isn't the telco types at all. The more normal use of these >things is that k/K and m/M are 1000 and 1000000 when you talking about >anything other than storage capacities. Er, the abbreviation of kilo for SI units is always a lower case k. Mega (M) and milli (m) are six decimal orders of magnitude different to it's a bad idea to get the case confused there. >When talking about storage is when you get the miss-usage of k/K and >m/M meaning 1024 and 1048576. I prefer to use K for 1024 (as opposed to k and 1000). A pity you can't do that for M. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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