On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:20:31PM +0200, Trond Michelsen wrote: > >> BTW, I was thinking once that numeral literals like 4k or 10G > >> (meaning 4*2**10, 10*2**30) would be very nice. What do you think? > > I think the meaning of the suffices are sufficiently vague as to make me > > uncomfortable supporting them. Is 1K 1024 or 1000? I can make a good case > > for both, and that's never a good sign. > > There's always the possibility of supporting SI's binary prefixes ;) > > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
I'm not really fond of 1K meaning anything, but if it's deemed appropos, I vote for the binary meaning. Question on the NIST definitions though: What does 1eie1i mean? I *think* that that's 2^60 times ten to the 1i... correct? Do we have precidence in mind, here? Can I say 1iei? Does anyone *do* that? -- Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG info. Fingerprint: www.ajs.com/~ajs 6DC1 F67A B9FB 2FBA D04C 619E FC35 5713 2676 CEAF "Write your letters in the sand for the day I'll take your hand In the land that our grandchildren knew." -Queen/_'39_
