At 7:57 PM -0500 2000/1/11, Mike Fisher wrote:
> Why not use Knuth's (good) suggestion for differentiating these prefixes?
>
> http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html
Blech. The prefixes should be aware of the nature of the term to
which they are being applied. For bytes, it is natural to use base
two exponents, and therefore there should be no confusion between KB
= 1024 bytes and km = 1000 meters.
I really think it is (or should be) that simple.
Now I guess I'm going to have to go devote a web page to this
topic and tell people about it. I'm getting really sick and bloody
tired of all this BS....
Of course, this is totally unrelated to -current, so follow-ups
should be sent to -chat.
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