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Re: [Monotone-devel] Patch
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Bernhard Reiter |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Patch |
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:53:09 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:06:18PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Seriously I learned that messing with the universal 10^3 based
> prefix SI-system is not a good idea. So I would prefer kilobyte
> and megabyte over kibibyte and mebibyte. If you really must use KiB,
> why not label it correctly?
I got two replies to my comment, but due to the avoid duplication
setting in Mailman, I though they were duplicates and deleted them.
Still I want to answer from my memory before the archive will have
caught up:
My motivation for SI-unit labeling:
Coming from a science background I saw many conversion errors
between units and thus really like standardisation at those points.
For a scientist it is like following to a technical standard
document like rfc2822 is for a programmer.
I like to correct those source of bugs as early as possible and
when I started programming (over 20 years) ago,
actually I learned that K was 1000.
To me it was later that books started to be imprecise on that point.
There are popluar examples for the damages unit-errors might do, like
http://www.jamesoberg.com/mars/loss.html
Why The Mars Probe Went Off Course
while not being the reason alone, it might have
helped triggering the problem.
Examples from my work are not nearly as spectacular.