On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:23:25AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > 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.
I agree. More details and discussion are at this ifconfig bug report, which came to the same conclusion: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-tools/+bug/240073 Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.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
