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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on	32-bit systems
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:21:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC34870.8090308@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC34758.3050706@ge.com>

Nick Thompson wrote:

> To differentiate from "K", which means 1000, rather than 1024.

I don't think that's correct.  I understand the 1000/1024 debate, but my understanding is that

KB = 1000 bytes
KiB = 1024 bytes

(personally, I think the whole kibi-byte thing is stupid, and we should just say that K=1024 when talking about memory sizes, but whatever)

I've never seen K=1000 and k=1024.  Then why don't we do "mB" instead of MB?  By your logical, M=1000000 and m=1048576


-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 23:02 [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v3] fix print_size printing fractional gigabyte numbers on 32-bit platforms Timur Tabi
2010-03-30 23:02 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on 32-bit systems Timur Tabi
2010-04-09 20:22   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-09 20:27     ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-09 20:40       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 16:12         ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 16:16           ` Nick Thompson
2010-04-12 16:21             ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-04-12 16:27               ` Nick Thompson
2010-04-12 18:02             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 17:59           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 18:03             ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 18:20               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 18:22               ` Scott Wood
2010-04-12 18:30                 ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 18:50                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 19:10                     ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 19:26                       ` Scott Wood
2010-04-09 20:10 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v3] fix print_size printing fractional gigabyte numbers on 32-bit platforms Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 16:04   ` Timur Tabi

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