Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

Mike Harrold
2001-12-20T19:42:30Z

>
> On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:36 am, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> > > I believe that the main purpose of documentation, help etc is
> > > to get the
> > > information across in a way that is most easily understood, ie that
> > > minimises the number of support questions.. ..and everyone
> > > surely knows
> > > what GB, MB and KB stand for. So let's leave it at that.
> > > Where's the "i"
> > > in "megabyte" ? Or is 1MiB 1000000 bytes, rather than 1048576?
> >
> > 1 MB isn't 1048576.
> >
> > it's 1000000
> >
> > mega isn't 2^10, it's 10^6
> >
> > so where are YOU coming from?
> >
> > (no, i'm not arguin, i don't particularly care. but i'm
> > pointing out that some people have completely firmly set
> > definitions and some other people also have firm definitions
> > and neither will agree the other's right. MiB is the international
> > standard for a 2^10 B(yte) specification. so if you mean
> > 2^10 bytes, you mean MiB, not MB, even if you don't like it :)
>
> This "international" standard seems to have excluded a few countries.
> It wasn't until it was SET that I even heard of its existance. (And
> then only through SLASHDOT!)

Yeah, no shit? The first time I buy 512MB of RAM and get 512000 KB
(aka 512000000 bytes) I am gonna be *PISSED*

/Mike