Jerry Stuckle a écrit :
On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
But this is not the point. I repeat, the use of powers of 2 is perfectly
acceptable. What is not acceptable any more is the abuse of decimal SI
prefixes for powers of 2. I have abused them too, but always felt
uncomfortable with this practice because of the potential and real
confusion it caused. I felt happy when standardized binary prefix were
adopted, and used them right way. Hey guys, it just takes a tiny "i"
inserted in the notation to avoid confusion ! Are you just so lazy ?
Using an extra "i" will be confusing to the majority of the world.
Not using it for binary prefixes is already confusing. I believe that
most unaware people would not even notice the "i" if it was present.
Please show me one major manufacturer which uses it, for instance. Or a
mainstream publication.
Let's make it clear. I am not saying that everyone should use only
binary prefixes. I am saying that when binary prefixes are useful, then
insert the "i" to make it clear that you use binary prefixes and not
decimal prefixes. Disk manufacturers do not need to use binary prefixes.
They are only useful for semiconductor manufacturers (RAM, flash memory
chips, CPUs...). Unfortunately it seems that JEDEC, which develops
standards for semiconductor devices, has not adopted the (now not so)
new binary prefixes and their symbols.