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From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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To: Michael Dunsky <michael.dunsky@p4all.de>,
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:00:54 -0600
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:47, Michael Dunsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> You are close - he uses "MiB" as short for "mebi" - Mega-binary.
> Don't laugh - this is official! It's exactly for what you said:
>
> What is 1 MB?
> 1.000.000 Byte
> or
> 1.048.576 Byte
>
>
> For a short reading I recommend this:
>
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
>
> ciao

Tebi or not Tebi? That is the question. Mebi this is a good idea, 
but I doubt it.   How many understand people (Americans at least) 
understand SI units before this change??   I say, gibe a break!

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timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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