From: Anthonys Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consistent use of IEC 80000-13 prefix in manpage
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 20:19:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57016CC1.7010802@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wrfjio028nxk.fsf@redhat.com>
On 31/03/2016 20:09, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> I am not very much in favor of this patch. Any normal sane person still
> refers to megabytes and kilobytes as referring to 1024 base sizes,
> despite the pointless standard trying to mess them up to accommodate the
> harddrive vendors. Nobody normal knows what a kibibyte is.
Nobody normal knows that kilo actually means 2^10 ...
Yes I know us computer people regularly abuse the term, but nowadays the
majority of computer lusers are familiar with the fact kilo has *always*
meant 10^3.
After all, isn't a billion one million squared? (10^12) ... :-) It's
only the Americans who think it's 1000^3 :-)
Cheers,
Wol
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-03 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 19:48 [PATCH] Consistent use of IEC 80000-13 prefix in manpage Marko Hauptvogel
2016-03-31 19:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2016-03-31 22:21 ` [PATCH v2] Consistent use of metric " Marko Hauptvogel
2016-04-01 20:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2016-04-03 19:19 ` Anthonys Lists [this message]
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