On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:50:09 +0100 Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de> wrote: > I am all for SI units, even it writing MiB could cause some users to > believe, we are too stupid to spell. As opposed to screwing up the numbers, causing some users to believe we are too stupid to count? > WTF doesn't this 64 MB file (64 * 2^10 bytes) fit on this 64 MB stick > (64 * 10^6 bytes)? And this sort of thing is exactly why they're used A 64MB file will fit in a 64MB space. A 64MiB file will not. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd leonerd org uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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