Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes: > It seems a sufficient quantity of people object to even the merest > mention of 'kibibytes' as shorthand for 'bytes divided by 1024 and > rounded' that only the fully expanded wording will be acceptable. > > The wording without it is unambiguous: > > The disk space is given as the integer value of the > installed size in bytes divided by 1024 and rounded. > > I guess that perhaps the '-ibibytes' standard will eventually die, and > everything will just become multiples of 1000, as it should be. In > the meantime, regardless of the success of failure of the standard, > this wording is at least correct for the current behaviour.
Okay. I don't care enough about it to argue it, so I think the most productive thing to do is just drop the parenthetical. I can make that change. > My preferred wording would be to define it in terms of kibibytes, but > include the explanation, since it seems it is an unfamiliar standard, > as follows: > > The disk space is given as the integer value of the > installed size in kibibytes (i.e. bytes divided by > 1024). Likewise. But I suspect that's going to be equally controversial. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
