Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Onno Benschop
doing a bit shift[0] and instead dividing the number of bytes by a power of 10. [0] I'm assuming that most applications will calculate how many Kilobytes/Megabytes are used by dividing by a power of two. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06" - E115°50&

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Onno Benschop
oken language would be phased out over time. Perhaps the IEC did pronounce them out aloud so we would all be embarrassed into using the SI units :) And just in case anyone else was as confused as I was, wikipedia cleared it up for me: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte * http://en.wik