Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On 1/20/07, David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> > KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2 Letter symbols to be used in
> > electrical
> > technology – Part 2)
> > Should be everywere KiB, MiB, GiB, ... according to IEC 60027-2
>
>         Bytes are not an SI unit. A "megabyte" doesn't have to be a million bytes any more than a "megaphone" has to be a million phones. A "megabyte" is 1,048,576 bytes. The "mega" in there is not an SI prefix. "Mega" is only an SI prefix when it appears before an SI unit.
Nice observation, however, it still leaves quite an amount of internal
inconsistencies in the kernel output.

One way of getting rid of those inconsistencies would be to follow IEC
60027-2 for those cases where SI is inappropriate.

Leon.
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