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

Timothy Covell
2001-12-20T19:05:19Z

On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:47, Michael Dunsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> You are close - he uses "MiB" as short for "mebi" - Mega-binary.
> Don't laugh - this is official! It's exactly for what you said:
>
> What is 1 MB?
> 1.000.000 Byte
> or
> 1.048.576 Byte
>
>
> For a short reading I recommend this:
>
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
>
> ciao

Tebi or not Tebi? That is the question. Mebi this is a good idea,
but I doubt it. How many understand people (Americans at least)
understand SI units before this change?? I say, gibe a break!

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