Attempting to take this serious, I would like to point to FOLDOC: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=prefix
If APT should -- for some reason -- opt to move against the correct (and commonly accepted) prefixes, I won't be a Debian user! :) Everytime I see an application mention "kB" instead of "kb" or "KB", I smile inside, thinking "somebody who has insight wrote this". It's even better when the application uses kilo-binary units. > I think it's dimensionless and therfore lacks an SI unit (like > radians). By the way, Radians have no unit and neither does pi, from which radians derive. A degree is no more than a postfix of (2pi/360) = 0,017. Was it added to maths for reasons of understanding? > But bytes are usually not counted in metric (base ten) units. That's > why we nowadays have kibibytes, abbreviated "KiB"; one kibibyte equals > 2**10 bytes. While the discussion's on, I'd too like to see APT move towards 2^(10*n) for units. I don't know if that would pose a problem -- but, I've said it. To summarize, I strongly oppose this move -- even to the extent that I am confused about it being brought up. Regards, Anders Breindahl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
