Re: Intent to package: "birthday" [OT]
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:56:14PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> wrong as claming 1 kilobyte to 1000 bytes. Maybe it would be nicer that
Now you've got me started on a pet topic of mine. Can you tell me why
the meaning of the SI prefixes changes automatically when we talk about
binary? Suddenly, kilo is not 10^3, but 2^10; mega is 2^20, not 10^6?
Makes no sense to me.
Hamish
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