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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:21:52 +0100
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} <mirabilos@netcologne.de>
Cc: Dirk Moerenhout <dirk@staf.planetinternet.be>,
        Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p.
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:43:41PM -0000, mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} wrote:
> > So in general your best bet is to see 1Kb/s as 1.000 bits per second
> and
> > 1Mb/s as 1000Kb/s or 1.000.000b/s. As most technologies will stick to
> > that. Though off course through the ages a lot of things have been
> altered
> > it and therefor have added to the confusion.
> 
> I'd rather think of 1 kpbs than 1 Kbps...
> K is Kelvin, and nothing else (IIRC). K is no prefix.

Some time ago, k was 1000 and K was 1024, b was bits and B was bytes ...
but then came the mega and giga, and you can't uppercase those ...

> 
> My proposal: humans should start using sedecimal as
> primary numbering system. (And forget about octal
> as fast as possible - it is referred way too often in UNIX!)
> 
> Greetings from snowful Bonn (Rhein)
> -mirabilos
> 
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