On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:59:01PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> Bit, baud and Byte are logarithmic units like Bel. Like for Bel,
> multipliers are well-defined.
None of bit, baud and byte are logarithmic units. What do you mean?
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Florian Weimer schrieb:
I am not talking about SI multipliers, or can you express a "Byte"
in SI units?
I think it's dimensionless and therfore lacks an SI unit (like
radians).
Bit, baud and Byte are logarithmic units like Bel. Like for Bel,
multipliers are well-defined.
Simon
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Yes, I did take note of that. However, the logic would be: If 'b' is for byte,
what symbol would we be using for a bit?
I have no knowledge of the historical background of the uppercase B. However,
quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte :
"Byte" is most often abbreviated as "B", hence "M
Yes, I did take note of that. However, the logic would be: If 'b' is for byte,
what symbol would we be using for a bit?
I have no knowledge of the historical background of the uppercase B. However,
quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte :
"Byte" is most often abbreviated as "B", hence "M
also sprach Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.07.2149 +0100]:
> Everytime I see an application mention "kB" instead of "kb" or
> "KB", I smile inside, thinking "somebody who has insight wrote
> this". It's even better when the application uses kilo-binary
> units.
I could be misinforme
Attempting to take this serious, I would like to point to FOLDOC:
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=prefix
If APT should -- for some reason -- opt to move against the correct (and
commonly accepted) prefixes, I won't be a Debian user! :)
Everytime I see an application mention "kB
* martin f. krafft:
> also sprach Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.07.0859 +0100]:
>> As for SI multipliers: deka is âdaâ (two letters!), hecto is âhâ,
>> kilo
>> is âkâ. All lower-case.
>
> I am not talking about SI multipliers, or can you express a "Byte"
> in SI units?
I think it's
also sprach Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.07.0859 +0100]:
> As for SI multipliers: deka is âdaâ (two letters!), hecto is âhâ, kilo
> is âkâ. All lower-case.
I am not talking about SI multipliers, or can you express a "Byte"
in SI units? I am talking about metric multipliers.
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Am Sonntag, den 06.02.2005, 20:08 +0100 schrieb martin f krafft:
> Anyway, I would really hope that l10n be case-*in*sensitive!
You would hope so, but you would be disappointed. As far as gettext is
concerned, itâs all strings of octets. There is no way to tell gettext
that a change in an original
Am 2005-02-06 20:08:01, schrieb martin f krafft:
> also sprach Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.06.1954 +0100]:
> > ...in English, I guessin French, kilo should NOT be
> > capitalised.
>
> Are you sure? It's even capitalise in latin. :)
>
> I care less about the capital K than t
also sprach Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.06.1954 +0100]:
> ...in English, I guessin French, kilo should NOT be
> capitalised.
Are you sure? It's even capitalise in latin. :)
I care less about the capital K than the lowercase b.
> If doing so, please please please ping me so
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.1
> Severity: minor
>
> APT has lines like
>
> Need to get 1634kB/1636kB of archives.
>
> all over. The "kB" is somehow camel-cased. First, Kilo should be
> capitalised (the metric system capitalises all modifiers >
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.1
Severity: minor
APT has lines like
Need to get 1634kB/1636kB of archives.
all over. The "kB" is somehow camel-cased. First, Kilo should be
capitalised (the metric system capitalises all modifiers > 1, and
all modifiers < 1 are lower-case), and second, there is no
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