Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:09:42 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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Hello!
> If you look at my post more closely, you'll see I used `kB' (that's small > k and capital B) for decimal kilobyte. I would never suggest using `KB' > (that's capital K and capital B) for it. I do agree that `KB' is traditionally > used for binary kilobytes, but what about MB, GB and so on? These _are_ > ambiguous. I am in favour of using Ki, Mi and Gi for binary quantities.
Yes, the current MB/GB units are awfully ambiguous, but using Mi/Gi won't cure the confusion as nobody will know whether MB/GB in that text means the old-fashioned name of binary megabyte or the decimal megabyte according to the new standard. Yes, the confusion might die out after a long period of time of everybody switches to the new system, but I seriously doubt it will happen in the near future.
It seems that the only way which is going to work is to create a new decimal prefix for units of information as well. Not a particularly nice solution, but probable the only working one.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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