Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

From: Jonathan Amery (jdamery@chiark.greenend.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 12:17:14 EST

In article <3C2315D6.40105@purplet.demon.co.uk> you write:
>Engineers not (yet) being familiar with the relatively new SI (and IEEE)
>binary prefixes is just about acceptable. "Engineers" that misuse k/K
>and (worse!) m/M should be in a different field entirely. The SI system
>is generally taught as basic science to pre-teenagers. There is no
>excuse!
>
 How many of them learn it though?

 Jonathan (occasionally guilty of s/kB/KB/ himself).

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