URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51304>
Summary: Documention refers to kibibytes as kilobytes Project: findutils Submitted by: ametzler Submitted on: Sat 24 Jun 2017 02:03:23 PM CEST Category: documentation Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: 4.6.0 Fixed Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Hello, this is https://bugs.debian.org/865736 sbmitted by Zefram <zef...@fysh.org>: ind(1) documents the following suffixes that can be applied to the argument of a -size criterion: `k' for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes) `M' for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes) `G' for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes) These are not the correct names for these units. The prefixes "kilo-", "mega-" and "giga-" properly refer to the decimal multipliers 10^3, 10^6, and 10^9. To refer to the binary multipliers 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30 the documentation should instead use the IEC prefixes "kibi-", "mebi-", and "gibi-". --------------------------------------------------- /Personally/ I do not care a lot for "kibi" et al. In my forming years a kilobyte was 1024 byte (except for harddisks, but everybody knew the manufacturers were cheating. ;-) However if there is something like a consensus for changing the docs I can provide a patch. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51304> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/