2009/6/3 Scott James Remnant <sc...@canonical.com> > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 10:58 -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > > > and I don't see any mention of it in the reports. Scott - can you > > shed some more light on that? > > > A general consensus was reached that MB means powers of ten, MiB means > powers of two, and that places where MB is used to mean powers of two > are bugs. (Common sense, really) > > We also generally tended to agree that it was always better to present > numbers in MB rather than MiB, as file sizes, disk sizes, bandwidth, > etc. are all counted in MB anyway. > > Scott > -- > Scott James Remnant > sc...@canonical.com > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > More details about MiB and MB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
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