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

Andreas Dilger
2001-12-20T21:27:16Z

On Dec 20, 2001 22:14 +0100, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> > everybody uses K for kilo and it's as absolutely incorrect as possible.
> > The existing symbols work by fiat. You can't make them "correct" by
> > following incorrect rules.
>
> Oh well, sorry, so let's say about 'k' and 'm'. However an engineer friend
> of mine has just say that 'K' is 1024, and 'k' is 1000 ... I dunno anymore ...

Well, they are wrong, because 'K' is Kelvin, and not kilo-.

> [however I've never seen 'Kg' instead of 'kg', but 'mB' or 'mb' are ugly
> when compared with 'Mb' and 'MB', not counting that 'b' is bit and 'B' is
> byte ... well ... it's confusing sometimes ...]

Especially since few people work on 1/1000 of a byte (i.e. 'm' is milli,
like mm=millimeter, and not 'M' which is Mega-). So mB and mb are just
plain wrong.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger