From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 30 08:42:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28411 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28391; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00430; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810301641.IAA00430@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: "Evan Champion" , "Luigi Rizzo" , "Peter Wemm" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:32:37 MST." <199810301532.IAA21575@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:41:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> "Evan Champion" writes: > : The correct SI prefix for kilo is 'k', so therefore it should be kb/s for > : kilobits per second, and kB/s for kilobytes per second. > : > : Some people argue that a capital K should be used to denote a factor of 2^10 > : instead of 10^3, but no one ever complains about the equally ambiguous (and > : much worse in terms of error) mega ('M') and giga ('G') prefixes. Because > : of this I tend to consider 'k' to be the correct prefix, either in base 2 or > : 10. > : > : There is no prefix K in SI; the SI unit K is, of course, Kelvin. > > K is the prefix for 1024, not Kelvin. m == Milli as a prefix and m == > meters as a unit of measure. This is a common extnetion to SI that > goes back at least 30 years. So what's the SI extension for 2**20 and 2**30? I don't buy it; this is laziness incarnate. 8) (Yay, another units flamewar. No work for me today!) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message