Hallo,
* Bob Proulx [Sun, Feb 10 2013, 11:46:30AM]:
Eduard Bloch wrote:
Hallo,
* Bob Proulx [Sat, Feb 09 2013, 11:44:03AM]:
You say "tomato", I say "tomahto". You can make your own divider the
number 34,969[1] if you like.
Wow, someone trying to disguise the own mistaken convention as pure
matter of preference?
For me I prefer binary powers of two when using it in relation to
computer tasks.
You can prefer whatever you want but the means of reliable communication
are unambiguous terms. EOD.
Some dudes in nineteen-seventies didn't get it and another generation of
dudes is still trying to protect those "values" even perfectly knowing
they are wrong.
Wow. My response pulled you in to post on debian-user! It has been a
while. Good to see you here.
Nah, not having much spare time to post doesn't mean I have to drop all
the good habits.
For anyone who gets upset by the topic I will only offer this
following treatise as highly recommended reading.
On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt
And there is it again :-( Please don't justify pure misuse of
terminology with false analogies like this document about Holy Wars at
absolutely equivalent things (equivalent WRT their application).
In the field of arithmetics the effects of such "misnomers" can become
fatal. For example, see the US speciality called "billion" which has a
custom meaning incompatible to the rest of the world.
Regards,
Eduard.