On 12/04/10 17:21, Timur Tabi wrote: > Nick Thompson wrote: > >> To differentiate from "K", which means 1000, rather than 1024. > > I don't think that's correct. I understand the 1000/1024 debate, but my > understanding is that > > KB = 1000 bytes > KiB = 1024 bytes > > (personally, I think the whole kibi-byte thing is stupid, and we should just > say that K=1024 when talking about memory sizes, but whatever) > > I've never seen K=1000 and k=1024. Then why don't we do "mB" instead of MB? > By your logical, M=1000000 and m=1048576 >
Hmm, yes, my bad. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html lists SI prefixes and "k" = 1000. "m" is milli of course. "K" is not used by SI, so might be free for 1024...? Nick. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
