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

Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08T22:15:26Z

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> YM "minute" HTH.

you're right... I did mean minute ;P

> FWIW, from the units database:
>
> nauticalmile 1852 m # Supposed to be one minute of latitude at
> # the equator. That value is about 1855 m.
> # Early estimates of the earth's
> circumference
> # were a bit off. The value of 1852 m was
> # made the international standard in 1929.
> # The US did not accept this value until
> # 1954. The UK switched in 1970.

true, it is off, but for all intents and purposes 1852 is close enough :)

Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com
Software Engineer
Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771
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