[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Fri Mar 20 09:25:01 GMT 2009


Ben Finney пишет:
> Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> writes:
> 
>> Ian Clatworthy has voted comment.
>> Status is now: Semi-approved
>> Comment:
>> I personally prefer KB to kB and KiB. I'm therefore happy for this to
>> land as I think it's an improvement.
> 
> I'd like to voice the point that the entire reason for having ratified
> standards for things like measurement units is precisely that these
> things *aren't* necessarily at the mercy of personal preferences, but
> can be expected to conform to the standards.
> 
> Take that point for what it's worth.

I want to point that KB is also standard, issued by JEDEC
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEDEC)

I'm hardware guy, yes.




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