From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthonys Lists Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consistent use of IEC 80000-13 prefix in manpage Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 20:19:29 +0100 Message-ID: <57016CC1.7010802@youngman.org.uk> References: <56FC2DAA.2020605@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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