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On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:39 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> This allows different people with different taste to specify numbers
> in various simple formats.  If you think you can improve on this,
> please send me a patch.

It is wrong to interpret 'k' 'M' and 'G' as anything other than 10^3,
10^6 or 10^9 respectively. If you have to do it to support a legacy
interface like slram, that's vaguely acceptable. No more, though.

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dwmw2