Re: Kibibytes

Twayne wrote:
> For those of you struggling with a K being 1000 or 1024, this might
> help a lot:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibytes
>
> Learned something new today and it's been out since 1998.

The next part of 'us' (tinu) trying to solve the problem of ambiguity is
getting everyone to recognize the concept of 'standards' -- where the
standard 'kilo' and 'mega' means 10^3 & 10^6, not 2^10 and 2^20.

Right now the 'world' thinks, "What does kilo- and mega- mean?"  ...
and
the answer is currently, "It depends."

That's ridiculous.

It is also ridiculous for the world to think, "What does 2007/03/06
mean?"  ... and the answer is currently, "It depends."

That condition makes me crazy.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin

 For those of you struggling with a K being 1000 or 1024, this might 
help a lot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibytes

Learned something new today and it's been out since 1998.
-- 

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Twayne

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Mike Easter wrote:

> It is also ridiculous for the world to think, "What does 2007/03/06
> mean?"  ... and the answer is currently, "It depends."

It's 111.5!  ;)

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message 
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>...
> It is also ridiculous for the world to think, "What does 2007/03/06
> mean?"  ... and the answer is currently, "It depends."

If the context points to a date, then where is it not 6th of March, 2007?

On the other hand, 06/03/07 is ambiguous unless you know whether the writer 
is from the USA or not, otherwise it means the same as above. 

"Bar0" <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> "Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:fokrj0$5pm$1@news.spamcop.net...
>>...
>> It is also ridiculous for the world to think, "What does
2007/03/06
>> mean?"  ... and the answer is currently, "It depends."
>
> If the context points to a date, then where is it not 6th of March, 2007?
>
> On the other hand, 06/03/07 is ambiguous unless you know whether the 
> writer is from the USA or not, otherwise it means the same as above.

Also for most purposes, when folks are talking of numbers of magnitudes in K 
or M, it really doesn;t matter much if it is 2**10, and 2**20 or 10**3 and 
10**6 respectively. It;s only ambiguous in the computer world. Outside of 
that those are always power of 10. Within the computer world it makes little 
difference since few try to optimally pack memory or storage to the point 
where it matters.

From time to time it has mattered to me but those are exceptional cases.