Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 13:57 +0100, Darren Salt a écrit : > I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... > > When I use a computer program, I don't want to wonder whether it uses > > precise units or approximate ones. A computer is a damn stupid machine > > and it will never know whether I need precision. Which is why it should > > *always* do things the precise way. > > Agreed. Use 1024 rather than the imprecise and misleading 1000...
The question is not whether to use powers of 2 or 10 (different software use both), but rather to use the good prefixes depending on that choice. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.