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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: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:04:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c384c5ea0701210904t15f44178hfd807b4553e0e3d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEEKNBAAC.davids@webmaster.com>

David,

On 1/20/07, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
> [Leon said:]
> > One way of getting rid of those inconsistencies would be to follow IEC
> > 60027-2 for those cases where SI is inappropriate.
>
>         Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB flash
> cards could be advertised as having 268.4MB? A 512MB RAM stick is
> mislabelled and could correctly say 536.8MB? That's just plain craziness.
>
No, I meant to advertise it as a 256 MiB flash device and a 512 MiB
flash device, as the Mi prefix has a single interpretation, that is 2
to the power of 20, as per IEC 60027-2, whereas M has not if used
outside SI units.

Leon.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-21 17:04 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
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 [this message]
2007-01-21 22:12         ` David Schwartz
2007-01-22  8:49           ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-27 15:06 ` Andries Brouwer
     [not found] <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [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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