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

Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-22T22:41:48Z

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:29:00PM -0800, Ryan Cumming wrote:

> > So, the English units were more attuned to nature. The only thing
> > natural about base ten is that the majority of us have 10 fingers and
> > 10 toes.

> Yes, and three is a magical number decreed by God himself. You do have a good
> point, though, the Imperial system fits in quite well with our
> base-two-but-sometimes-three number system.

Actually, you're not far from the truth here. The best system (makes for
least numbers of weights you need to make for weighing, etc, etc) is
base e (2.7182...), which is best approximated by base two sometimes
three ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs