On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:20 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 13:29:48 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I formally object to the part '(in other words, the size in kibibytes)'. > > > > (I believe this change is not informative and only serve the purpose of > > endorsing a standard which does not meet consensus in Debian.) > >
It seems a sufficient quantity of people object to even the merest
mention of 'kibibytes' as shorthand for 'bytes divided by 1024 and
rounded' that only the fully expanded wording will be acceptable.
The wording without it is unambiguous:
The disk space is given as the integer value of the
installed size in bytes divided by 1024 and rounded.
I guess that perhaps the '-ibibytes' standard will eventually die, and
everything will just become multiples of 1000, as it should be. In the
meantime, regardless of the success of failure of the standard, this
wording is at least correct for the current behaviour.
My preferred wording would be to define it in terms of kibibytes, but
include the explanation, since it seems it is an unfamiliar standard, as
follows:
The disk space is given as the integer value of the
installed size in kibibytes (i.e. bytes divided by
1024).
Cheers,
Andrew.
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