base 2 or base 10.

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 27-03-10 22:45, Steve Flynn wrote:
> I note with some amusement that Slashdot and several other sites are
> alight with the news that Ubuntu are about to provide the option to
> display filesizes in base 10 or base 2.
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/1451238/Ubuntu-Will-Switch-To-Base-10-File-Size-Units-In-Future-Release?art_pos=6
>
> Any positive or negative reactions to this from the users here? Moving
> the buttons from right to left caused some people pain - how do you
> feel about this "improvement" to the UI?
>

Please move this topic to sounder.


That being said, I have no problem with either base-2^10 or base-10. 
It's actually very simple.

Base-10 = kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta,...
base-2^10 = kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi,...

This is all according to international engineering standards. It's all 
very official and smarter people than myself have been using it for over 
10 years now, and it all sounds very sensible and very scientifically 
correct.