From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 17 10:49:14 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (lw-121-201.sj.shownets.net [209.119.121.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519F537B7DB; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 13PBjA-00006J-00; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:32:04 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:32:04 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Warner Losh , Josef Karthauser , Brian Somers , 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> References: <200008161633.KAA05164@harmony.village.org> <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rodney W. Grimes" 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