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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:00:32 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0112232052360.12081-100000@imladris.surriel.com>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:53:41PM -0200
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:53:41PM -0200, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
| On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > Using KB in places where precision matters puts us all into case #4
| > below, because people think they know what KB means, but it means
| > different things to different people, and so people don't realise they
| 
| I take it this is your way of volunteering to always
| keep all kernel documentation accurate as well as
| answer questions from newbies who've never seen
| 'KiB' before ? ;)

Hmm. Not my plan at the time of typing, no.
But KB _is_ ambiguous. KiB is not (and it's ugliness is actually an advantage
here - it's less likely to be misused by people who've not seen the definition).

Just out of curiosity, is there anywhere in the kernel space where KB (et al)
is _not_ used to mean a power of 2 value?
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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