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SubjectRe: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Randolph Bentson wrote:

> I'm afraid I have to disagree with you. Not enough people
> know that KB stands for 1000B. I know through experience that
> KB is often used for 1024B. The introduction of KiB makes it
> clear that 1024B is intended.

Given the confusion its raised in this thread already, this strikes
me as a particularly bad change. Some of those definitions in
Configure.help have been there for the better part of 10 years
now, and I don't recall anyone in the past few years needing to
ask for clarification.

Is this really that important ?

Dave.

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