Re: Configure.help editorial policy (H20 and K2B)

Timothy Covell
2001-12-21T13:06:04Z

On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:52, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>:
> > Another option: maybe the choice of KB vs KiB vs KKB should be a
> > configuration choice.
>

Um, you know, all due repect to Knuth, the God, I think that
someof his ideas are downright silly. Now, my suggestion
is different, namely, inserting a 2 in the unit such as "K2B"
meaning Kilo (base2) Byte. It's not like we don't have a
precendent from the chemistry and physics fields.

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