Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932500AbXAVUoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:44:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932509AbXAVUoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:44:13 -0500 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:36996 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932500AbXAVUoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:44:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:44:12 -0500 To: Alan Cc: Jan Engelhardt , 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: <20070122204412.GB7582@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> <20070122183619.2db6538e@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070122183619.2db6538e@localhost.localdomain> 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: 540 Lines: 15 On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +0000, Alan wrote: > K is Kelvin, k is kilo- K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. > See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide > and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following it. -- 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/