On 16/02/13 16:54, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> 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. >> > > True, I will agree it is storage capacity. > >> 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 ? >> >> > > Using an extra "i" will be confusing to the majority of the world. > > Please show me one major manufacturer which uses it, for instance. Or a > mainstream publication. > > Saying something is a standard does not make it so. Only acceptance by > the users makes it a standard. And that has not occurred. > It certainly won't happen with luddite attitudes like yours prevailing. It IS a standard, whether you like it, or not. Get used to it.
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