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    SubjectRe: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
    At 07:47 PM 12/20/01 +0100, Michael Dunsky wrote:
    >You are close - he uses "MiB" as short for "mebi" - Mega-binary.
    >Don't laugh - this is official! It's exactly for what you said:
    >[snip]
    >For a short reading I recommend this:
    >
    >http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

    Yet on this page you point to, the first paragraph under the table reads as
    follows:

    "It is important to recognize that the new prefixes for binary multiples
    are not part of the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric
    system."

    That disclaimer makes it highly UNofficial.

    It also goes against legacy use, as well as use within the kernel and GNU
    utilities for informative messages.

    We have enough problem introducing non-technical people to Linux as it is
    without inflicting new and obscure abbreviations. Notice that the
    discussion is about changes to Configure.help, the WORST place to start
    introducing new and not-widely-used notation.

    Hey, it's not a bad idea, but I want it adopted first in things like
    stories in the mass media before we start introducing it in Configure.help.

    Stephen Satchell


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