From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 30 12:57:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24621 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA24615 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zZLbs-000045-00; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:57:28 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA23984; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:57:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199810302057.NAA23984@harmony.village.org> To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:36:12 EST." <199810301636.LAA04356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199810301636.LAA04356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> <199810301532.IAA21575@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:57:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199810301636.LAA04356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett Wollman writes: : < said: : : > : There is no prefix K in SI; the SI unit K is, of course, Kelvin. : : > K is the prefix for 1024, not Kelvin. : : Not in SI it isn't. SI has no prefix for 1024, or any other power of : two for that matter. There is no SI prefix for K. Like I said before, K is a common extention to the SI for 2^10 and has been for about 30 years. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message