From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} <mirabilos@netcologne.de>
Cc: Dirk Moerenhout <dirk@staf.planetinternet.be>,
Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p.
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:21:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011222232152.A11373@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112221538560.214-100000@dirk> <011701c18b10$329ef3a0$30d8fea9@ecce>
In-Reply-To: <011701c18b10$329ef3a0$30d8fea9@ecce>; from mirabilos@netcologne.de on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:43:41PM -0000
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:43:41PM -0000, mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} wrote:
> > So in general your best bet is to see 1Kb/s as 1.000 bits per second
> and
> > 1Mb/s as 1000Kb/s or 1.000.000b/s. As most technologies will stick to
> > that. Though off course through the ages a lot of things have been
> altered
> > it and therefor have added to the confusion.
>
> I'd rather think of 1 kpbs than 1 Kbps...
> K is Kelvin, and nothing else (IIRC). K is no prefix.
Some time ago, k was 1000 and K was 1024, b was bits and B was bytes ...
but then came the mega and giga, and you can't uppercase those ...
>
> My proposal: humans should start using sedecimal as
> primary numbering system. (And forget about octal
> as fast as possible - it is referred way too often in UNIX!)
>
> Greetings from snowful Bonn (Rhein)
> -mirabilos
>
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Vojtech Pavlik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-22 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-20 18:36 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p Dana Lacoste
2001-12-20 19:13 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 19:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-21 17:50 ` Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 18:41 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-21 18:49 ` lk
2001-12-21 19:12 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-22 4:51 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-20 19:43 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p David Weinehall
2001-12-20 23:12 ` [OT] " Wilfried Weissmann
2001-12-20 23:13 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 23:03 ` ncw
2001-12-22 7:52 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2001-12-22 12:53 ` Jeff Mcadams
2001-12-22 15:03 ` Dirk Moerenhout
2001-12-22 15:20 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel Alan Cox
2001-12-22 16:10 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-22 17:43 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}
2001-12-22 22:21 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
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2001-12-20 19:27 Dana Lacoste
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