Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Hansen wrote: >> Only for hard drive manufacturers, perhaps. >> For the rest of the computer world, unless I've missed >> a changing of the guard or something, "kilo" is 1024 >> and "mega" is 1024*1024 and so forth... > > Given that there are perfectly good ISO prefixes for the multiples of > 2**10, I don't see any reason to continue misusing the 10**3 prefixes > for the purpose.
>From what I found <URL: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html >, it's not clear those are ISO prefixes yet - but they have been adapted by some standards agencies. Possibly you have better references? <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
