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echo: os2
to: Jack Stein
from: Steve McCrystal
date: 1999-09-10 06:59:29
subject: Kib, Mib, gib: 1024^n ?

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In a msg of , Jack Stein writes to Jonathan De
Boyne Pollard:
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Jack,

 JS> I like k,m and g for the small ones, K,M, and G for the big
 JS> ones...

 JS> Whats so tough about that?

I normally just assume that when I'm talking to computer literate folks,
they'll understand what I ean by each of the above, and those who aren't
computer literate wouldn't understand it even if I explained it to them.

This whole thing sorta reminds me of the switch from BPS to Symbols.  The
entire world could do without it!

-[Steve]-

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