On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 08:14, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > El jue, 18-12-2003 a las 03:11, Alexander Winston escribió: > > [...] > > To quote the National Institute of Standards and Technology, "It is > > important to recognize that the new prefixes for binary multiples are > > not part of the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric > > system." However, even with the availability of prefixes for binary > > multiples, I believe that only prefixes for decimal multiples should be > > used, due to their ease of use and users' familiarity with them. > > The same document referenced at the end of your email: > http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec04.html quote: > > Note: Alternative definitions of the SI prefixes and their > symbols *are not permitted*. For example, it is unacceptable to use > kilo (k) to represent 2^10 = 1024, mega (M) to represent > 2^20 = 1 048 576, or giga (G) to represent 2^30 = 1 073 741 824. > > (the emphasis is mine) > > So, http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/x14800.html > says that 10 Megabytes should be 10 MB. According I understand > the documentation and the note it should be 10^10 and not 2^10. Since B (Byte) is not an SI unit, what does it matter whether in SI the prefix K means 1024 or 1000? 1 KB traditionally has been 1024 byte, we should not change that! Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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