Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:51:16 pm Christopher Chan wrote: >> That has been the case for years and only recently have I heard this >> nonsense of base10 whateverbyte units in stuff other than misleading but >> covered my behind disk labels. > > The IEEE decided nearly a decade ago that instead of redefining the SI units > (which were base 10 long before the invention of digital computers), we > should > have our own prefixes for 1024-based numbering schemes.
Indeed. It's very regrettable that they gave the new prefixes such silly-sounding names that no one wants to use them. Max.
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