Re: APT cause français

[Benoît Sibaud <benoit.sibaud@wanadoo.fr>]

> > La norme est ISO, donc internationale (cf. www.bipm.fr, Bureau
> > International des Poids et Mesures).

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

one kibibit 	 1 Kibit = 210 bit = 1024 bit
one kilobit 	 1 kbit = 103 bit = 1000 bit
one mebibyte 	 1 MiB = 220 B = 1 048 576 B
one megabyte 	 1 MB = 106 B = 1 000 000 B
one gibibyte 	 1 GiB = 230 B = 1 073 741 824 B
one gigabyte 	 1 GB = 109 B = 1 000 000 000 B

$ grep -r /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20 KiB
(...)
./Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt:# is no. 3 (64 KiBit line speed)
(...)
./drivers/ide/ide-disk.c:               printk (" w/%dKiB Cache",
id->buf_size/2);
(...)
./drivers/mtd/maps/mbx860.c:#define MAX_SIZE_KiB              8192
./drivers/mtd/maps/mbx860.c:#define BOOT_PARTITION_SIZE_KiB    512
./drivers/mtd/maps/mbx860.c:#define KERNEL_PARTITION_SIZE_KiB 5632
./drivers/mtd/maps/mbx860.c:#define APP_PARTITION_SIZE_KiB    2048
(...)

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Benoît Sibaud