[wellylug] [OT] Kb/Kib (was [OT] Internet & Citylink)

[jumbophut]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:37:24 +1300, Leo wrote:

> Just to clear things up: 
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

And more here, which indicates this will probably become an ISO standard:

<http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/binprefixes.html>

It is odd that the prefix for 1000 (kilo) is used to mean 1024, even
in binary.  1000 is 10^3 in base 10, which means if we are to use kilo
for base 2, it should refer to 2^3=8, where as what is really wanted
is 2^10.

We're all used to the use of kilo for 2^10 for computer-related
quantities, but it's use was never really well-founded, and it's an
anomaly that should be fixed.  Kibi does that.

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')