Re: Using standardized SI prefixes
Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 18:27 +0530, shirish a écrit :
> Hi all,
> Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . I
> put a bug up for it https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/119822 &
> Aaron helpfully said it needs more discussion. I have had great
> support from libtorrent code.rasterbar.com as well as the guys at
> deluge http://dev.deluge-torrent.org .
> The difference is simply astonishing to put aside if let's say a
> download or an .ISO says 700 MB (700*1000) it becomes 683.59375 MiB
> (700000/1024) . Please lemme know what you guys think about it ?
> It isn't just ubuntu or debian but this needs to be done
> everywhere. Have something accurate.
FWIW, this is already the case in GNOME.
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