On Monday 11 June 2007 15:10:24 Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Montag 11 Juni 2007 22:15 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 15:25 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > > > You seem to fancy the K-is-1024--k-is-1000 convention > > > > > > No, I hate that convention. K and k should only ever refer to 1024. > > > > /me waits for the day measuring jugs are graduated in powers of two, > > just to please a group of hackers who don't like SI units. > > And you have to change their world in an useless atempt? > Abbreviations are ambiguous by design. Who actually says that KB means > kilobyte? Well, in SI units, KB never means kilobyte, and is not ambiguous at all; it's a kelvin·bel. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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