Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

(no name) ((no email))
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:25:47 +0100

Hi all :))

>You are close - he uses "MiB" as short for "mebi" - Mega-binary.

Personally I don't like very much the abbreviations, but I must
recognize that they remove all possible ambiguity for the
Configure.help. With MiB, GiB, etc... you're completely sure that you
are talking about 2^20, 2^30 and not 10^6, 10^9, etc...

So I think that is a good idea in general to use that
abbreviations for the binary units. Moreover, it's official and
correct use. Eric made a sensible decision here.

Raśl
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