Max Bowsher wrote: > To my mind, the power-of-2 grouping is sufficiently intrinsic to the > nature of bytes, whilst the "kibi mebi gibi tebi" stuff not only > sounds and looks stupid, but loses a great deal of clarity by making > all of the prefixes differ only in a single syllable.
Clarity like the size of 1.44MB floppy disks? <http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/1mb44-is-not-a-standard-floppy-disc-size.html> Nils -- 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