Messages in this thread | | | From | "Per Jessen" <> | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:22:39 +0100 | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:18:08 +0100 (MET), Pozsar Balazs wrote: > >This might be a standard, but _it_is_not_adopted_anywhere! (at least I >haven't seen it anywhere (I might be blind)). >I would rather call standard something which is adopted in real life.
No, that would be a socalled defacto standard. Ie. not necessarily a standard proposed and recommended by a standards body. For instance, you may think that the UK using pounds and ounces is standard - after all they are both being used in real life. But it is contrary to the standard. (as given by the SI system).
rgds, Per
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