Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

[Nils Kassube]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> To my mind, the power-of-2 grouping is sufficiently intrinsic to the
> nature of bytes, whilst the "kibi mebi gibi tebi" stuff not only
> sounds and looks stupid, but loses a great deal of clarity by making
> all of the prefixes differ only in a single syllable.

Clarity like the size of 1.44MB floppy disks?
<http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/1mb44-is-not-a-standard-floppy-disc-size.html>


Nils