Neil Benn wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
what's American about it? If anything, it's more French than American ;-)
Well, actually this started with scaling integers, and I was worried
about a billion / billionth (and up / down). In mid-task I
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
what's American about it? If anything, it's more French than American ;-)
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Michael Hoffman wrote:
Peter Maas wrote:
This kibi-mebi thing will probably fail because very few can manage
to say "kibibyte" with a straight face :)
I agree, I can't do it yet. I can write kiB and MiB though with a
straight face, and find that useful.
And here I thought MiB meant "Men In Black"..
Michael Hoffman wrote:
Peter Maas wrote:
This kibi-mebi thing will probably fail because very few can manage
to say "kibibyte" with a straight face :)
I agree, I can't do it yet. I can write kiB and MiB though with a
straight face, and find that useful.
And written communication is where avoiding
Peter Maas wrote:
This kibi-mebi thing will probably fail because very few can manage
to say "kibibyte" with a straight face :)
I agree, I can't do it yet. I can write kiB and MiB though with a
straight face, and find that useful.
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Dave Brueck schrieb:
Multiple definitions aside, "kilo" and "mega" are far too entrenched -
even if I could manage to say "kibibyte" with a straight face, I'd get
nothing but blank stares in return.
This kibi-mebi thing will probably fail because very few can manage
to say "kibibyte" with a strai
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 inst
Peter Hansen wrote:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
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...
In case this isn't clear yet: you have missed a changing
of the guard or something. "kib
Peter Hansen wrote:
I'll be one of the last holdouts, too... it's really not
so hard to work in powers of two if you try...
The difficulty isn't with working in powers of 1024, it's that the terms
are used inconsistently even within the computing industry. Memory is
measured in kibibytes, but d
Nick Coghlan wrote:
My mistake - IEC, not ISO :)
For all intents and purposes an IEC standard should be as good as an
ISO one. They usually develop standards for different areas, or jointly
if it is an overlapping area (but ISO/IEC standards are usually referred
to as "ISO standards").
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
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...
In case this isn't clear yet: you have missed a changing
of the guard or something. "kibi" is 1024, "mebi"
Alan Kennedy wrote:
[Peter Hansen]
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...
Maybe you missed these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
http://en.wikipe
Mike Meyer wrote:
From what I found 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?
My mistake - IEC, not ISO :)
And I did get one wrong in my sample code - it'
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 perfec
Dan Bishop wrote:
They must have gotten the idea from floppy disks, which also use a
1024000-byte "megabyte".
It's pretty common industry-wide. Memory is measured in binary prefixes
(x 1024), but disk space and bandwidth are measured in decimal prefixes
(x 1000).
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Dan Bishop schreef:
Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...
Yes. Unless you work in
Peter Hansen wrote:
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...
In case this isn't clear yet: you have missed a changing
of the guard or something. "kibi" is 1024, "mebi" is
1024*1024 and so fort
Peter Hansen wrote:
Roel Schroeven wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
[Scott David Daniels]
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
'exa zetta yotta').split():
m
Pierre Hanser wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
Roel Schroeven wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...
>
> Yes. Unless y
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...
Yes. Unless you work in the telcoms industry, wher
Peter Hansen wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
'exa zetta yotta').s
Peter Hansen wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
'exa zetta yotta').s
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 s
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in :
magnitude /= 1000.
if magnitude < 1000.:
b
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
'exa zetta yotta').split():
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
>
> def units(value, units='bytes'):
> magnitude = abs(value)
> if magnitude >= 1000:
> for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
> 'exa zetta yotta').s
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