D Richard Felker III wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:24:07AM -0400, Matthew W. Miller wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:27:39AM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:26:51PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
... 700-800MiB CD-R ... mebibyte ...
Are you just using these ridiculous-sounding units to annoy people, or
to try to "convert" people, or what?
They are perfectly standard and not ridiculous.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
I'm quite aware. Many standards are ridiculous.
Rich
So is being off by 7% because someone thought Gigabit included those
miniscule little bits
at the end. Reminds me of engineers having trouble converting between
English and metric
units (didn't we lose a spaceprobe recently because of that?). Is
trying to be exact in programming ridiculous?
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