Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:52:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c Message-ID: <199810301652.IAA00547@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:43:15 %2B0100." <5885.909765795@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <199810301636.IAA00382@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > > >We've had this one before. K is kelvin, a measure of temperature. k > >is kilo, the SI 'about one thousand' unit. > > I think SI is a bit more specific than that... I'm sure it is. 8) Common usage has us abusing the k, M and G multipliers to imply their nearest power-of-two equivalent in the context of things counted in power-of-two fashion. My point was that K is contextually an orphan like "meter" or "humor" in typical American usage. -- \\ 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
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