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On 1/10/25 15:40, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 1/10/25 15:30, mick.crane wrote:
On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote:
Tomas writes:
Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
the US still on their Imperial measures,
Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imper
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM mick.crane wrote:
>
> On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote:
> > Tomas writes:
> >> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
> >> the US still on their Imperial measures,
> >
> > Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperia
On 1/10/25 15:30, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote:
>> Tomas writes:
>>> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
>>> the US still on their Imperial measures,
>>
>> Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system.
>> We use bo
On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote:
Tomas writes:
Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
the US still on their Imperial measures,
Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system.
We use both SI ("metric") and US Customary (the latter predate
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Tomas writes:
> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
> the US still on their Imperial measures,
Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system.
We use both SI ("metric") and US Customary (the latter predates
Imperial).
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John Hasler
j...@sugar
I used to hold on dearly to the "1024-based" view, and it's only now
that I realize that I don't actually care about it any more. I think
what happened is that internally many things care about power-of-2 sizes
for technical reasons (there are very good reason why mass storage block
sizes are alwa
On 1/10/25 04:50, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Jan 09, 2025, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
are much more conven
Hi,
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> It takes 8 bits to make one byte, should we change that to 10 too
We once had the other way round. Four bits making one decimal digit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
The elders even had opinions whether Gray was to prefer over plain
bi
On Jan 09, 2025, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
> > >are much more convenient, not just to measure
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