Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no >> excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead >> of abusing SI decimal prefixes. > > And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"?
BIPM (SI), NIST (USA), CENELEC (Europe) IEC, IEEE. Are these official enough for you ? See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix> > Making up prefixes for something which has always been that way is > confusing. Abusing already-existing prefixes by giving them a different meaning is confusing too. > It's simple. When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. Actually not in all cases but mostly in storage capacity only. When time or frequencies are involved, i.e. in clock, speed or data rate (bus, network, disk...) use of powers of 10 has been constant. 10Base-2 speed is 10 000 000 bits/s. But this is not the point. I repeat, the use of powers of 2 is perfectly acceptable. What is not acceptable any more is the abuse of decimal SI prefixes for powers of 2. I have abused them too, but always felt uncomfortable with this practice because of the potential and real confusion it caused. I felt happy when standardized binary prefix were adopted, and used them right way. Hey guys, it just takes a tiny "i" inserted in the notation to avoid confusion ! Are you just so lazy ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/511f9d8f.5050...@plouf.fr.eu.org
