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From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?=3D=3Fiso-8859-1=3Fq=3Fin	Configure=3D2Ehelp=3D2E=3F=3D?=
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On Saturday 22 December 2001 09:56, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> On 20011222 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Followup to:  <200112220214.fBM2EsSr022402@svr3.applink.net>
> >By author:    Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
> >In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> >> So, the English units were more attuned to nature.  The only thing
> >> natural about base ten is that the majority of us have 10 fingers and
> >> 10 toes.
> >
> >And all of us count that way.  Oh yes, the English unit is *so*
> >attuned to nature... this is why we have different measures for dry
> >volume, wet volume... avoirdupois versus troy weight... oh yes, energy
> >is measures in BTUs and power in horsepower... what is the conversion
> >factor between them (it has the dimension of time?)
>
> And different length for sea and land 'miles'. Very natural...

The land "mile" is based on a very logical thing too (at least at the
time).   Mile is the anglicised "mille" which is French/Latin for
1000.  And mille refers to the distance traveled after _1000_ paces 
of a Roman army regiment. 

-- 
timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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