From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 17:26:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from arnie.adacel.com.au (arnie.adacel.com.au [203.36.26.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A310637B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32560 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2002 01:40:36 -0000 Received: from intmail.adacel.com (HELO proton.adacel.com.au) (root@203.8.85.90) by arnie.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 01:40:36 -0000 Received: from hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au ([192.168.75.251]) by proton.adacel.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA29705 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:27:21 +1100 (EST) Received: (qmail 7629 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2002 01:18:49 -0000 Received: from selene.wodonga.adacel.com.au (HELO adacel.com) (192.168.75.20) by hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 01:18:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:28:25 +1100 From: Michael Wardle Organization: Adacel Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-us, en-gb, en, eo, de- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Yes, short for binary megabyte and binary kilobyte. Call them the full name if you can't get your tongue around the sort versions. > 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. Like it or not, 1000 bytes != 1024 bytes. KB (or preferably kB) means 1000 bytes, and that's not the units we usually talk about. -- MICHAEL WARDLE | WORK +61-2-6024-2699 SGI Desktop & Admin Software | MOBILE +61-415-439-838 Adacel Technologies Limited | WEB http://www.adacel.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message