Re: Using standardized SI prefixes
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:40:46AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Of course, I don't usually care that file sizes in my browser window are
> displayed in kibibytes and mebibytes. Not until I select some of them,
> see the total size, and ask myself whether they fit on a DVD.
If you want to figure out whether they fit on a DVD, you want the number
of bytes in your total anyway, not the amount of kilobytes (regardless
of whether that's 10^3 or 2^10)
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