On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:19:45AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:32:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:15:25PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 15:25 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > > > > You seem to fancy the K-is-1024--k-is-1000 convention
> > > > No, I hate that convention. K and k should only ever refer to 1024. > > > /me waits for the day measuring jugs are graduated in powers of two, > > > just to please a group of hackers who don't like SI units. > > Shall I bring you a half gallon of milk to Scotland, then? > > "Pff, base 10, the metric system is so archaic" > The US gallon being the Queen Anne period wine gallon or 0.83 > gallons? I'll stick to Imperial thanks - four pints will be fine in > anywhere in Scotland/England/Ireland/Wales and I'll get slightly more :) US gallon, of course; that way you get powers of two from the ounce on up. 8 gallons to the kiloounce; 32 gallons to the kilogill. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]