Joel C. Ewing is right, and I was one of the principal offenders. The supported values, prefixes, and abbreviations are
2^10, kibi, Ki 2^20, mebi, Mi 2^30, gibi, Gi 2^40, tebi, Ti 2^50, pebi, Pi 2^60, exbi, Ei Thus, for example, mebibit, mebibyte are correct; but mibibit, mibibyte are not. Care is, however, required. Mibit, Mibyte are correct; but mebit, mebyte are not. The distinction between powers of 2 and 10, e.g., between 2^10 = 1024 and 10^3 = 1000 is not a piece of idle pedantry. It is indceed acquiring greater importance as larger units, which have larger percentage discrepancies, come into significant use. o 1000/1024 = 0.9765625 o 1000000000/1073741824 = 0.9313225 --jg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
