Peter Hansen schreef: > Given the clear "units='bytes'" default above, and my restricting > my comments to "the rest of the computer world", it should be > clear I was talking about a very limited subset of the planet. > > A subset, however, which has an extremely strong attachment to > 1024 instead of 1000 (for very good reasons), and which is > less likely to abandon backwards compatibility and widely accept > 1000 than the US is likely to adopt metric widely in the near > future...
The problem is that that 'subset' uses kilo for both 1000 (at least hard disks & some network transmission speeds) and 1024 in computer science. -- JanC "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
