Messages in this thread | | | From | Nicholas Knight <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p. | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:13:52 -0800 |
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:36 am, Dana Lacoste wrote: > > I believe that the main purpose of documentation, help etc is > > to get the > > information across in a way that is most easily understood, ie that > > minimises the number of support questions.. ..and everyone > > surely knows > > what GB, MB and KB stand for. So let's leave it at that. > > Where's the "i" > > in "megabyte" ? Or is 1MiB 1000000 bytes, rather than 1048576? > > 1 MB isn't 1048576. > > it's 1000000 > > mega isn't 2^10, it's 10^6 > > so where are YOU coming from? > > (no, i'm not arguin, i don't particularly care. but i'm > pointing out that some people have completely firmly set > definitions and some other people also have firm definitions > and neither will agree the other's right. MiB is the international > standard for a 2^10 B(yte) specification. so if you mean > 2^10 bytes, you mean MiB, not MB, even if you don't like it :)
This "international" standard seems to have excluded a few countries. It wasn't until it was SET that I even heard of its existance. (And then only through SLASHDOT!)
Everyone I know has been using KB/MB/GB for 1024 forever. The *only* exception is networking, and the occasional FLASH/ROM size. The latter isn't very common discussion, and among those that it is, they'd know what the other was talking about. For the former, I can distinguish easily depending on who it is.
Someone without a lot of experience: I have a 1MB connection. (this user has a 1 Megabit connection)
Someone with experience: I have a 1mb/Mb connection. (This person has a 1 megabit connection has used a "standard" abbreviation.)
Know how these standards came about? Actual use. Not a bunch of "engineers" in a room arguing over how best to cause absurd changes in kernel help files. - 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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