lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [Jan]   [2]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
From
Date
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).


-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:15    [W:0.121 / U:0.096 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site