Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | From | Jonathan Amery <> | Date | Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:17:14 +0000 |
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In article <3C2315D6.40105@purplet.demon.co.uk> you write: >Engineers not (yet) being familiar with the relatively new SI (and IEEE) >binary prefixes is just about acceptable. "Engineers" that misuse k/K >and (worse!) m/M should be in a different field entirely. The SI system >is generally taught as basic science to pre-teenagers. There is no >excuse! > How many of them learn it though?
Jonathan (occasionally guilty of s/kB/KB/ himself).
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