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

Jonathan Amery
2002-01-02T17:37:59Z

In article <3C2315D6.40105@purplet.demon.co.uk> you write:
>Engineers not (yet) being familiar with the relatively new SI (and IEEE)
>binary prefixes is just about acceptable. "Engineers" that misuse k/K
>and (worse!) m/M should be in a different field entirely. The SI system
>is generally taught as basic science to pre-teenagers. There is no
>excuse!
>
How many of them learn it though?

Jonathan (occasionally guilty of s/kB/KB/ himself).