Re: glib uses wrong prefix for base-2 units

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

On 06/03/2009 05:36 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:

> Yes; we messed up 30 years ago and said "k" when we
> meant "Ki". Oops. Sorry about that.

Well, no, 30 years ago there was no "Ki".  So people did the logical 
thing and picked the prefix that represented the correct *magnitude* of 
the value.

> Lets not do it wrong for another 30, please?

"Wrong" is somewhat relative here.  Things can have different meanings 
in different contexts[1].

	-brian

[1] Of course, the marketing departments of some storage media companies 
arbitrarily decided it could have different meanings in the *same* 
context too.