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On 03/30/2014 12:40 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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> <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:27:34 -0400 |
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>> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> As soon as you start getting into anything that involves the real |
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>>> world and engineering |
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>> Which isn't the case here, so this whole thing is irrelevant. |
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> What prevents the output of a tool from being used in an engineering |
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> context? In any case, my concern is more with ambiguity (when |
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> software tells me I have 1GB of free space, what does that mean?). I |
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> think GB are more useful than GiB in most cases (though I explicitly |
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> stated in my first proposal that there are situations where this isn't |
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> the case), but I care more about ambiguity. |
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> Since definitions of units are generally standardized across all |
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> potential uses (do you want a km to be different depending on whether |
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> you're measuring road length, speed, or wavelengths?), it only made |
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> sense for the ISO/etc to pick definitions that were useful in the |
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> broadest sense. |
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> Rich |
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The system you are most familiar with really depends on what Operating |
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System you use. if you don't use computers you probably were exposed to |
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either the SI units or imperial base 10 units. |
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Microsoft Windows uses and has historically used the JDEC System, MB, |
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KB, GB in base 2, |
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Macintosh OSX uses SI units, |
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Unix as far as i can rember reading the different different versions of |
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the programmers manual has always stated things in IEC, i assume they |
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just used bits before that? i think IEC came about sometime in the mid 90's |
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