From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750861AbXAVIr6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:47:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750845AbXAVIr6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:47:58 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48580 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbXAVIr5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:47:57 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Date: 22 Jan 2007 09:49:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.8.185.213.dk-amb.res.sta.perspektivbredband.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "DS" == David Schwartz writes: DS> If you are right, a "512MB" RAM stick is mislabelled and is more DS> correctly labelled as "536.8MB". (With 512MiB being equally DS> correct.) DS> Isn't that obviously not just wrong but borderline crazy? No. It is not obvious to me what is wrong with that. RAM is the only thing using binary units, everything else is decimal. It is about time that RAM switched too. /Benny