Remco [2009-06-01 5:15 +0200]: > I have a file here of "701.2 MB", which is "735270912 bytes". Now, if > it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 701200000 bytes. So that's > clearly base 2, which should be MiB.
Indeed this is a bug which we should fix. It should say "735.3 MB". > While that may be true, the most useful thing about base 10 is that > normal humans can actually understand it. We cannot calculate using a > binary number system. Base 2 is not useful for anything, except > sometimes in programming. I'm still inclined to keep the exception for RAM size, though, since they consistently come in multiples of MiB/GiB. Everything else should use MB/GB, though. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
