On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 01:47:04PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote: > > Now, the question is, should apt say there are 1024 bytes in a > kilobyte, or 1000? Apt currently does the latter and truncates this > to 10.4 MiB. I believe the former is more proper, and it should > reconvert this to 9.94 MiB. > Both tools behave correctly as defined in IEC 80000-13:2008, as 1 KiB are 1024 bytes and 1kB are 1000 bytes (1KiB != 1kB). But I guess we could also change APT to use IEC prefixes instead and divide by 1024.
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