his to.
> Maybe in GTK?
>
> Either way, a centralized system would help stop errorenous usage of
> GiB, GB or Gb.
Don't we already do this for °C and °F?
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way. If you really want to know how many bytes are available, you
> can use this great unit called the "byte" which is accurate and not
> subject to change[0].
1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no
less. If they want to actually put 1.024 TB on the
4%
error because all they ever measured anything in was kilo-somethings.
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On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:56 -0500, Mark Reitblatt wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Fine. Stick with Kilobytes, but strictly define it as 10^3 bytes. Just
> > choose one over the other and be consistent.
>
> That's not "consis
; > everywhere.
>
> No it doesn't.
>
> The "SI binary prefixes" are an abomination.
>
> "Kibibytes"? Christ... [Did they try pronouncing these horrid things
> when "standarizing" them?!?]
>
> -Miles
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