Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:31:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com>
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On 2002-02-21 10:53, Michael Wardle wrote: > Hi. > > There is a standard on how to represent data sizes here: > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > > I suggest that the document is updated to consistently use this standard. Reading that page, all I have to say is "NO. Good grief, no." Mebibit ? Kibibit ? Ye gods. I would probably prefer it if we consistently used KB for Kilobyte(s), and MB for Megabytes, but having different symbols for units that are multiples of 1024 and other symbols/contractions for multiples of 1000! No, please no. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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