From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?=
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:56:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011222165627.A19038@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C234CC100020E25@mta13n.bluewin.ch> <by> <postmaster@bluewin.ch)> <200112220214.fBM2EsSr022402@svr3.applink.net> <a0133l$2ln$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <a0133l$2ln$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:44:37 +0100
On 20011222 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Followup to: <200112220214.fBM2EsSr022402@svr3.applink.net>
>By author: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>And all of us count that way. Oh yes, the English unit is *so*
>attuned to nature... this is why we have different measures for dry
>volume, wet volume... avoirdupois versus troy weight... oh yes, energy
>is measures in BTUs and power in horsepower... what is the conversion
>factor between them (it has the dimension of time?)
>
And different length for sea and land 'miles'. Very natural...
--
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-21 19:55 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Per Jessen
[not found] ` <by>
2001-12-22 1:48 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 4:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 4:49 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 7:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 18:22 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 19:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2001-12-22 2:11 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 4:55 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-22 7:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-22 15:56 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-01-08 21:24 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08 21:29 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-08 22:15 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2002-01-08 23:03 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-08 22:59 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 5:29 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Ryan Cumming
2001-12-22 5:53 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-22 22:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in?Configure.help Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-22 10:53 ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2001-12-22 11:12 ` temperatures rpjday
2002-01-02 18:02 ` [OT] Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Jonathan Amery
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