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[SM-Sorcery-Bugs] [Bug 10284] gaze size isn't human readable
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- Subject: [SM-Sorcery-Bugs] [Bug 10284] gaze size isn't human readable
- Date: 4 Jan 2006 05:33:44 -0000
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10284
------- Additional Comments From acedit AT armory.com 2006-01-03 23:33 -------
the most recent suggestions ive seen say that
kB is 10^3 or a kilo-byte (capital K is for Kelvin, lowecase k is for kilo)
and
MB is 10^6 or a mega-byte (capital M is for mega, lowercase m is for milli)
whereas
KiB is 2^10 or a Kibibyte
and
MiB is 2^20 or a Mibibyte
basically attempting to co-exist with SI units, i guess the 'bi' is mneumonic
for binary.
I've also seen KB mean 1024, and K mean 1000, and lots of other abuses...
heres some vaguely academic writing on the subject
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/information-units.txt
For what its worth the 'units' tool understands kibibytes as 1024.
What fun... :-/
I see ls -lh and du -h both use K and M, so I suppose the path of least
resistance is to hop on the unix/gnu bandwagon.
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