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From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>
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To: Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
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Hi Mike.

>> [however I've never seen 'Kg' instead of 'kg', but 'mB' or 'mb' are
>> ugly when compared with 'Mb' and 'MB', not counting that 'b' is bit
>> and 'B' is byte ... well ... it's confusing sometimes ...]

> i was going to comment about simply using lowercase equivalents, but
> then milli already has 'm', although the concept of a millibyte (or
> even millibit) is absurd.

I remember reading somewhere that the Voyager space probes now
communicate information back to earth at the incredibly fast rate of 10
minutes per byte - which my mental maths says is somewhere in the region
of 1.6 mB per second - using precicely the unit you decry.

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Have you purloined the emblem of the Scottish National Party ???
Refer to http://www.snp.org.uk/ for details.

Best wishes from Riley.

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