-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > > Toralf Lund: >> Not really. People who say 1kb is 1024 bytes will also say that 1Mb is >> 1024kb. They don't change their minds about the factors in the middle >> of it all. > > Unfortunately, that only works if they're consistent (which not > everybody is, and why we have this mess), and if you have such clues to > fall back on. For instance, if they only ever mention the term MB, you > don't know what they're referring to. > > There's only one example I can come up with that makes virtually useless > use of the kilo prefix (and other multiplier prefixes), and that's in > computing. Everything else is consistently the same: > > 10km = ten thousand metres > 10kV = ten thousand Volts > 10kg = ten thousand grams > 10kB = something vague and useless > Excuse my potential ignorance, but I thought that Kilobyte and its ilk were deprecated in favour of the binary prefixes Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, Pebi &c. i.e.: 1 Kibibyte = 1024 bytes 1 Mebibyte = 1024 Kibibytes and so on... Ref: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kibibyte.html C. - -- Craig McLean http://fukka.co.uk craig@xxxxxxxxxxx Where the fun never starts Powered by FreeBSD, and GIN! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDy67SMDDagS2VwJ4RAvlNAKDB9HJMXG9k+qWfOS3bqN1KNntK6ACg5Nm9 vzQ1waS9O/KtrKGudgoNJrk= =GkYU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
