On Mon, 7 October 2013 10:49:43 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > [After more research:] It looks like this topic may be the subject of > some long-past flame wars. If I am digging up past demons, then I'd > prefer to let sleeping Balrogs lie.
Most of the time it is obvious from context whether you want base-1000 or base-1024 numbers. So in the common case the extra letter is plain annoying. In less common cases it matters a lot and lack of the extra letter is rather irritating. One possible solution would be to have three suffixes. Ki for base-1024, Kd for base-1000 and K for "I don't care, you decide for me". But I am sure that would simply cause another round of flamewars. It is not a hard technical problem. As a result, noone on this list has the required expertise to solve it. Jörn -- Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is forever. -- John R. Mashey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
