Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750863AbXAUOoM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:44:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750897AbXAUOoM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:44:12 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46718 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857AbXAUOoL (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:44:11 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Date: 21 Jan 2007 15:45:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.8.185.213.dk-amb.res.sta.perspektivbredband.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 703 Lines: 14 >>>>> "BE" == Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> writes: BE> 1) This change isn't nescensary - any sane person will know that BE> it's not a SI unit. You wouldn't talk about megabananas == 1000000 BE> bananas and expect to be taken seriously. What about megaparsec? I have also seen graphs delimited in megayears. Millibar, that's another one. Not that I would have any problems talking about megabananas, if I ever had to deal with that many bananas. /Benny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/