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

H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22T04:33:04Z

Followup to: <200112220152.fBM1qJSr022347@svr3.applink.net>
By author: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
> entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
> of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
> suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
>

Ewhat?!

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