Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] man2/: use IEC or ISO multiples to clarify long numeric digit strings

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On 2/19/23 22:10, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On 2/17/23 15:05, Stefan Puiu wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>>>> diff --git a/man2/add_key.2 b/man2/add_key.2
>>>>> index 56fc6d198d21..215de20baeae 100644
>>>>> --- a/man2/add_key.2
>>>>> +++ b/man2/add_key.2
>>>>> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ The size of the string (including the terminating null byte) specified in
>>>>>  .I type
>>>>>  or
>>>>>  .I description
>>>>> -exceeded the limit (32 bytes and 4096 bytes respectively).
>>>>> +exceeded the limit (32 bytes and 4Ki bytes respectively).
>>>>
>>>> For what it's worth, I find 4096 much clearer over 4Ki (what is Ki
>>>> anyway?). Ditto for 32768 / 32Ki etc. What are we trying to achieve?
>>>
>>> In this case, we should rather use 4\ KiB, which is standard.
>>
>> Maybe it is standard, but why is 4 KiB better / more suitable than 4096?
> 
> 4 KiB is not that much better than 4096, since 4096 is easy to read.
> For higher numbers such as 33554432, it becomes more important to use 32 KiB.

I meant 32 MiB, of course :)

> For consistency, using 4 KiB seems reasonable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 

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