From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 16:31:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC0537B405 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a141.otenet.gr [212.205.215.141]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1L0VH6w016986; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:31:18 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1L0VGl11932; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:31:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:31:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Michael Wardle Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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