On Monday 11 June 2007 21:21, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > I agree with the "sounds stupid" part, although I don't belive this is a
> > valid argument.
>
> It's a perfectly valid argument for me to use to ignore a bad standard.
> If the standard makes me talk funny, I will ignore it or make fun of it.
Most of the time you won't have to say it. Spoken language tends to be less
formal than written language, and 2^10 bytes still is approximately a
kilobyte (and so on up to giga, where the approximation starts to fail). So
you only have to say kibibyte when you need to be precise.
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Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se
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