From: Scott Wood <scottwood@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 14:26:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC373E9.4060302@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC37043.5010508@freescale.com>
Timur Tabi wrote:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> For example, how big is (ummm: was) a standard 3.5" floppy disk?
>>
>> 1.44 MB, right?
>>
>> Well, actually it's 1474560 bytes, or 1440 * 1024 bytes.
>>
>> So this "MB" here is 1000 * 1024 - which is complete nonsense.
>
> This is bad example, because the size of a floppy is neither 1.44MB nor 1.44 MiB.
It's a good example, because it was a result of allowing prefixes like
"MB" to be fuzzily defined. If you give the marketers room to interpret
fuzzy things in their favor, they'll use it.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-12 19:26 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
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 [this message]
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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