Dear Timur Tabi,
In message <4bc366de.1000...@freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> I guess my objection that I think the whole idea is stupid doesn't count for
> much? I'll do it if Wolfgang insists, but I honestly believe that there was
> no confusion and that the introduction of KiB and its ilk just makes things
> worse, not better. No
> one is going to compare memory sizes in kilobytes with distances in
> kilometers and get confused.
Well, there _is_ a lot of confusion
For example, how big is (ummm: was) a standard 3.5" floppy disk?
1.44 MB, right?
Well, actually it's 1474560 bytes, or 1440 * 1024 bytes.
So this "MB" here is 1000 * 1024 - which is complete nonsense.
Let's use the official standard units, please. We may not like them,
but at least they will not cause a $125 million Mars orbiter to
crash...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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