* Vineet Kumar (debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net) [030604 15:44]: > convenience, not "standardization". Also, I don't know how far it goes > back, but I'm sure that the 1e6 usage of the mega- prefix was in use > long before the SI came around ~1 centuries ago. I'd call several > decades of the 2^10 usage pretty meager. Bah, typo. That was supposed to be ~2 centuries ago. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -- Albert Einstein
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