On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 19:56 -0500, Mark Reitblatt a écrit : > > That's not "consistent". Kilobyte has always meant 2^10 bytes. > > No, it has never. Kilo has always meant 10^3. Full stop. End of story. > Bye bye. People didn't invent the SI just so that a small group of > hackers decide that suddenly it is 2^10 just because it is more > convenient. SI units are *universal*. > Really? Because there is no history of words being co-opted and being assigned new meanings? Pirate? Hacker? It is a fact that, lacking a better work, people will take a word that is a close approximation in some way and use it. The kilo ≈ 2^10 is not the first, nor will it be the last.
> > It has never been anything but a gross imprecision introduced by people > incapable of following rigorous standards. > It has never been anything more than people defaulting to a close approximation. Language is imperfect. People make do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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