Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:44:16 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman <null@trit.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020221034421.AE58A3E35@bazooka.trit.org> In-Reply-To: <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on "Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:31:16 %2B0200"
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 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. I hate to add fuel to the fire, but I think Knuth's proposal on this topic at least deserves mention: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html (scroll down to "What is a kilobyte?"). I think the only down side to this is that it isn't a ratified standard--oh well. I'm not going to fight long and hard (read: at all) for this or any of the other proposals. I'll be content with anything as long as it's used consistently and our rationale for choosing it--regardless of what "it" is, since there's no de facto standard--is documented somewhere. P.S. There was a thread on linux-kernel late last year about this. If you're one who wishes to fight to the death over the issue, please read that thread; the time you save may be your own. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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