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From: "Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:07:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c384c5ea0701201007t4e637b9eh133101286ce5598d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKMEIPBAAC.davids@webmaster.com>
Hello,
On 1/20/07, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
>
> > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> > KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2 Letter symbols to be used in
> > electrical
> > technology – Part 2)
> > Should be everywere KiB, MiB, GiB, ... according to IEC 60027-2
>
> Bytes are not an SI unit. A "megabyte" doesn't have to be a million bytes any more than a "megaphone" has to be a million phones. A "megabyte" is 1,048,576 bytes. The "mega" in there is not an SI prefix. "Mega" is only an SI prefix when it appears before an SI unit.
>
Nice observation, however, it still leaves quite an amount of internal
inconsistencies in the kernel output.
One way of getting rid of those inconsistencies would be to follow IEC
60027-2 for those cases where SI is inappropriate.
Leon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-20 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 8:08 Michał Kudła
2007-01-20 10:29 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-20 18:07 ` Leon Woestenberg [this message]
2007-01-20 22:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-21 0:07 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-21 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 6:45 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 8:25 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-01-22 15:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-21 7:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 20:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-01-21 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 17:04 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-21 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-22 8:49 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-27 15:06 ` Andries Brouwer
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[not found] ` <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-21 10:40 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-21 11:10 ` Eduard Bloch
2007-01-21 22:08 ` Stefan Richter
2007-01-22 15:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 16:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 18:36 ` Alan
2007-01-22 19:24 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 22:26 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-22 20:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:17 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-01-22 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-21 14:45 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-21 15:06 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-01-21 21:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 1:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-22 10:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-01-22 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 1:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 1:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-23 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 13:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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