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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:01:53 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp i4b.c
Message-ID:  <20000818210153.E683@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <20000818092855.C19185@pavilion.net>
References:  <200008161633.KAA05164@harmony.village.org> <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at> <20000818092855.C19185@pavilion.net>

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Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> wrote:
>Tony Finch wrote:
>> 
>> >When talking about storage is when you get the miss-usage of k/K and
>> >m/M meaning 1024 and 1048576.
>> 
>> I prefer to use K for 1024 (as opposed to k and 1000). A pity you
>> can't do that for M.
>
>Of course it gets even worse when you want to differentiate between
>bytes and bits, i.e 64K bytes or 64K bits.

B and b (except that too namy people don't spot that distinction).

Tony.
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