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

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:53:38 -0700

On Mar 18, 2002 11:36 -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> According to the standards, where capitalization is used:
> (1) For a proper name.
> (2) To differentiate between otherwise identical symbols.
>
> "KB" would mean:
>
> Kirchoff-Bell
>
> It needs to be:
>
> "kb" to mean kilobyte.

Argh. Not this thread again. "kb" is kilo _bits_ not kilo _bytes_.

Cheers, Andreas

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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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