Re: Configure.help editorial policy

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 10:47:10 EST

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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Reid Hekman wrote:

> or if that offends the sensibilities:
>
> 4 kilobytes (binary)
> 1024 kilobytes (decimal)
> 8.4 gigabytes (decimal)

"decimal" is implied when using SI prefixes.

-- Matthias Andree

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