From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 19: 5:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B3137B400 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:05:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (zbay5-20.fyi.net [206.80.158.20]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1L2xmv20909; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:59:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C7463A5.5060204@pittgoth.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:04:05 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Wardle Cc: Wouter Van Hemel , Giorgos Keramidas , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> <1014256250.304.66.camel@cocaine> <3C745639.8080509@adacel.com> 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 Michael Wardle wrote: This is confusing me... Let me throw my "vision" in here... 1000 is very easy for a human to work with, mainly newbies, but I like the 1024. The reason I think that is because 1024 is more "realistic" because there are 1024 numbers from 0 to 1023, and 1023 seems to be 10 bits in binary: 11 1111 1111, which is a very convient binary value. So, whilist 1000 may be a very easy decimal value for a human to work with (1111101000) I don't feel that it looks "nice" for a binary machine. Yes, a bit of thought went into this, and I understand that standards are standards, but I am trying to put understand this from, what I feel, is a "logical" view point... Although my view alone --Tom Rhodes A tad bit of topic, but whatever To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message