From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750816AbXAUPdM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:33:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750910AbXAUPdL (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:33:11 -0500 Received: from zakalwe.fi ([80.83.5.154]:58797 "EHLO zakalwe.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816AbXAUPdK (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:33:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1592 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:33:10 EST Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:06:18 +0200 From: Heikki Orsila To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Message-ID: <20070121150618.GA11613@zakalwe.fi> References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:40:40AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > 1) This change isn't nescensary - any sane person will know that it's not a > SI unit. You wouldn't talk about megabananas == 1000000 bananas and > expect to be taken seriously. I've met quite a few non-sane persons then. I find using kilo, mega and giga prefixes convenient to use. For example, I often use GEUR to refer to Giga Euros, because the word billion is overloaded. > 2) No sane person would say kibibyte as required by the standard. You'd need > a sppech defect in order to do this, and a mental defect in order to try. > So why should anybody adhere to the rest of this bullshit? I think I'm not sane then. I find it easy to use and pronounce. IEC 60027-2 is a great standard! It removes some annoying ambiquity in speech and text. Adhering strictly to proper SI units (k, M, G, ...) makes life easier as they are taught in school to everyone. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: heikki.orsila@iki.fi "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" http://www.iki.fi/shd