That's true for all of us, not just IBM, but I'm going to find it difficult to talk in mebibytes.
There's a list of binary prefixes at <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>. -- Jack Hamilton Management Information & Analysis - Analytic Information Services Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. 1950 Franklin Street, Oakland, California 94612 +1 510 987-1556 (KP tieline 8-427-1556) NOTE: This email document and attachments are covered by CA Evidence Code §1157 and CA Health and Safety Code §1370. NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you. "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> 12/12/2008 08:30 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Display Active Users panel (DA) In <5411f4eec9c68f4ca6f78821e685165a02612...@htxmail.jhacorp.com>, on 12/11/2008 at 09:10 AM, Hal Merritt <hmerr...@jackhenry.com> said: >So a display of 22T would be = 22 * 4096 / 1,000 = 90,112 bytes? No, it would be 22 * 4096 * 1,000 = 90,112,000 bytes. >And, since 1 K is most often defined as 1024 in this context, It's about time for IBM to start paying attention to the correct definitions of the SI units and to use Ki if they mean 1024. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
