From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
Tony Foiani <tkil@scrye.com>,
Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:43:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070122204326.GA7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701221756000.317@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and
> K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.
And for 10^6 vs 2^20?
> kegs perhaps? :)
Hmm, Mega -> Megs, Kilo -> Kils?
--
Len Sorensen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-22 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-01-21 10:40 ` PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Bodo Eggert
2007-01-21 11:10 ` Eduard Bloch
2007-01-21 22:08 ` Stefan Richter
2007-01-22 15:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 16:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 18:36 ` Alan
2007-01-22 19:24 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 22:26 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-22 20:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:17 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-01-22 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2007-01-22 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-21 14:45 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-21 15:06 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-01-21 21:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 1:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-22 10:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-01-22 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 1:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 1:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-23 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 13:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-20 8:08 Michał Kudła
2007-01-20 10:29 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-20 18:07 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-20 22:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-21 0:07 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-21 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 6:45 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 8:25 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-01-22 15:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-21 7:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 20:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-01-21 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 17:04 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-21 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-22 8:49 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-27 15:06 ` Andries Brouwer
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