Ubuntu Policy: prefixes for multiples of units

[Martin Pitt]

Martin Pitt [2008-09-25 13:30 +0200]:
> > The great thing about standards is that there as so many to choose from.
> > One standard defines 1024 bytes as a kibibyte (the IEC one) and another
> > as 1.024 kilobytes (the ATAPI one).
> 
> Hm, there's obviously a typo here (1024 bytes != 1024 kilobytes), I'm
> just not creative enough to figure it out.

Oh, of course. "." as in "decimal separator", not "thousands
delimiter". Speaking about different standards in different
countries...

So where's the contradiction? Of course 1024 = 1.024 * 10^3 (1.024 KB) 
== 1 * 2^10 (1 KiB), so that is totally consistent?

Martin

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