I'm sorry. I've had a long day, and people have been (not on the mailing list) suggesting ways of cheating. I've changed the rules. They should be clear, not as restricting, and clear. Sorry for any trouble I may have caused you. http://groups.google.com/group/pyday/web/rules-for-pyday
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luke Paireepinart wrote: > > > Which is why Kilo is not an SI standard unit for 1024. > > You have to use Kibibyte when referring to 1024 bytes. > > Because it's confusing. > > Start using the correct term, and perhaps it will catch on, like it > > should've already :) > > Using KiB doesn't entirely solve the problem, because if > someone uses KB, you *still* can't be sure what they mean. > > I think KB == 1024 is too ingrained by now to be able > to do much about it. My advice is that if the *exact* > number of bytes is important, write it out in full in > decimal, e.g. 32,000 or 32,768. Only use KB or MB to > give an approximate idea of the size of something. > > -- > Greg > -- - PyMike
