From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:49:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112220453.fBM4rGSr022807@svr3.applink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C234CC100020E25@mta13n.bluewin.ch> <200112220152.fBM1qJSr022347@svr3.applink.net> <a012ck$2jo$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <a012ck$2jo$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
On Friday 21 December 2001 22:32, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <200112220152.fBM1qJSr022347@svr3.applink.net>
> By author: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
> > entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA
> > standard of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an
> > American President, suggested the Metric system to the French while he
> > was ambassador there.
>
> Ewhat?!
>
> -hpa
I'm assuming that you're questioning Jefferson's role. Here are a couple of
quotations which show that Jefferson's idea predated the official
implemenation. I can do more digging if need be.
1791 - "Jefferson Report." Thomas Jefferson described England's weight and
measures standards to Congress "on the supposition that the present measures
are to be retained," and also outlined a decimal system of weights and
measures of Jefferson's conception.
And:
As the scientists were experimenting in their laboratories, practical
tradesmen were making themselves permanent standards. In 1793, during
Napoleon's time, the French government adopted a new system of standards
called the metric system, based on what they called the metre.
--
timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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2001-12-21 19:55 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Per Jessen
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2001-12-22 1:48 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 4:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 4:49 ` Timothy Covell [this message]
2001-12-22 7:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 18:22 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 19:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2001-12-22 2:11 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 4:55 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-22 7:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-22 15:56 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= J.A. Magallon
2002-01-08 21:24 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08 21:29 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-08 22:15 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08 23:03 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-08 22:59 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 5:29 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Ryan Cumming
2001-12-22 5:53 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 22:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in?Configure.help Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-22 10:53 ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2001-12-22 11:12 ` temperatures rpjday
2002-01-02 18:02 ` [OT] Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Jonathan Amery
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203181358540.25105-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
2002-03-19 14:20 ` Pete Cervasio
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2002-03-18 11:31 Nayyer Tiger
2002-03-18 16:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-03-18 16:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-18 13:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-18 17:38 ` Jakob Kemi
2002-03-18 18:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-18 18:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-18 19:00 ` Mike Dresser
2002-03-18 19:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-18 19:31 ` Chris Friesen
2002-03-18 22:04 ` Mike Dresser
2002-03-18 22:12 ` Mike Dresser
2002-03-19 11:48 ` Remco Post
2002-03-18 17:04 ` Steven Cole
2001-12-23 9:18 Per Jessen
2001-12-23 16:34 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-22 23:22 Per Jessen
2001-12-23 7:21 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-23 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 8:39 matthew david reuther
2002-01-08 21:18 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-12-22 2:51 Thomas Hood
2001-12-21 22:55 Stuart Lynne
2001-12-21 11:44 Christian Groessler
2001-12-21 12:50 ` Rene Engelhard
2001-12-21 14:40 ` Reid Hekman
2001-12-21 14:48 ` Rene Engelhard
2001-12-26 19:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-21 15:48 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-12-21 16:07 ` Rene Engelhard
2001-12-21 17:43 ` Bob Glamm
2001-12-21 20:50 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-12-20 19:25 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-20 21:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-21 23:05 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-20 19:13 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 19:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-21 17:50 ` Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 18:41 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-21 18:49 ` lk
2001-12-21 19:12 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-22 4:51 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-20 18:02 Steven Cole
2001-12-20 18:16 ` Matt Bernstein
2001-12-20 18:42 ` Randolph Bentson
2001-12-20 19:00 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-20 19:07 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 18:47 ` Michael Dunsky
2001-12-20 19:00 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-21 1:44 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-20 18:26 ` Robert Love
2001-12-20 18:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-20 19:32 ` Steven Cole
2001-12-20 19:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-20 20:40 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2001-12-20 20:32 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-20 21:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-20 21:14 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-20 21:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-20 22:49 ` Mike Eldridge
2001-12-21 10:58 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-12-26 18:59 ` Riley Williams
2002-01-02 17:17 ` Jonathan Amery
2002-01-02 20:17 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-03 4:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-03 15:46 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-24 13:39 ` Lionel Bouton
2001-12-25 11:25 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-25 20:14 ` Lionel Bouton
2001-12-20 19:49 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-22 10:24 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-22 10:47 ` Phil Howard
2001-12-22 11:30 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-22 20:18 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-23 5:39 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-24 13:21 ` Ian Molton
2001-12-22 16:03 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-23 10:43 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-23 12:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-23 16:24 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-24 12:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-28 10:25 ` Kai Henningsen
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