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lynx-dev Re: [PATCH 2.8.5-pre4] KiB fixup
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Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
lynx-dev Re: [PATCH 2.8.5-pre4] KiB fixup |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:40:30 -0800 |
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:29:01PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> gilmap> I prefer it be left as it is, in conformance with standards.
>
> AFAIK, "KB" is the standard. Can you quote which standard says it is
> "KiB"? Can you explain why I never saw it written using this
> standard?
gilmap> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
gilmap> Sounds like a personal problem to me.
Thorsten> Also, when a luser doesn't grok KiB, what will he do? Throw
on google, since he's already in a web browser...
This is what I did now.
Kib/sec 147 hits
KB/sec 96200 hits
Enough said for a "personal problem".
Given that the standard is more than 5 years old, we can safely
conclude that it is deadborn (on the whole earth it is mentioned about
twice a month ;-).
Should we jump any bandwagon passing through the town without thinking first?
Ilya
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