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On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> ISO/IEC prefixes [1,2]: KiB (kibibyte), MiB (mebi-), GiB (gibi-) |
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> -- unambiguously 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 |
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> 'old' prefixes: kB (kilobyte), MB (mega-), GB (giga-) |
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> -- can mean 10^3 or 2^10 etc. depending on author's intention |
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> -- SI people tend to use 10^N for consistency with other units |
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To think that counting is the one situation where it is actually |
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possible to have perfect precision, and we still manage to mess up the |
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units... |
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I'm a bit torn on this. I'm an American, so I am supposed to do |
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something ambiguous and arbitrary (can we count bytes in baker's |
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dozens?). I'm also a Chemist, and never met an SI unit I didn't like. |
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We do need to keep in mind that the laws of physics dictate that |
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boolean states can only be combined in groups of 8. That's a shame, |
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because kibibits just rolls off the tongue and helps promote healthy |
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fur. |
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Now I need to get back to sleep because I have a 97.7 kibimeter drive |
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tomorrow... |
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Rich |
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