In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:00:26 -0700, Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
njs> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:12:17PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: njs> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:23 +0200, Lapo Luchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: njs> > njs> > lapo> As it goes 1000 bytes is 1 kilobyte (1 kB) njs> > lapo> while 1024 bytes should be called 1 kibibyte (1 KiB). njs> > njs> > That's what I would call newspeak... njs> njs> That's a strange stance, since kilo has meant 1000 back to at least njs> the mid 19th century: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/history-si/ That's applying a decimal system on a binary system. The choice 1024 is, of course, the closest possible in a binary system that is still humanly comprehensible. The stance is based on the fact that 1000 is a power of 10 and 1024 (decimal) is a power of 2. 1000 (decimal) is in no way a power of 2, and 1000 (binary) is just too ridiculous to talk about... njs> (Why are we talking about this on monotone-devel?) Beats me, I'm just responding to what is said here. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
