Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932495AbXAVUn2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:43:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932497AbXAVUn2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:43:28 -0500 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:36965 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932495AbXAVUn2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:43:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:43:27 -0500 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Eduard Bloch , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Message-ID: <20070122204326.GA7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070121111000.GA6679@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de> <20070122155354.GB25916@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 538 Lines: 17 On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and > K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. And for 10^6 vs 2^20? > kegs perhaps? :) Hmm, Mega -> Megs, Kilo -> Kils? -- Len Sorensen - 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/