On Tuesday 12 June 2007 15:46, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 14:57, Darren Salt wrote: > > I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... > > > > [snip] > > > > > When I use a computer program, I don't want to wonder whether it uses > > > precise units or approximate ones. A computer is a damn stupid machine > > > and it will never know whether I need precision. Which is why it should > > > *always* do things the precise way. > > > > Agreed. Use 1024 rather than the imprecise and misleading 1000... > > Come now, there is no inherent difference in *precision* between 1000 and > 1024, or K/k and Ki.
Sorry, semantically (or linguistically or something) "kibibyte", "mebibyte"
and the others are more precise because they mean exactly one thing,
whereas "kilobyte", "megabyte" etc. *can* (currently) mean either of two
things unless explicitly or implicitly disambiguated.
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