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to: Rodrigo Cesar Banhara
from: George White
date: 1999-09-28 10:23:27
subject: Kib, Mib, gib: 1024^n ?

Hi Rodrigo,

On 27-Sep-99, Rodrigo Cesar Banhara wrote to Jack Stein:



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

 RCB> I like that way, too.

And that gets all the engineers laughing at when they see a
300mHz processor (m = milli = 10^-3).
Case for differentiation between 1000 and 1024 is not viable because
of existing SI standard usage. You'll just have to get used to the
usage Jonathan posted...


George

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