On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:48:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > How many grams in a kilogram ? How many meters in a kilometer ? How many > > joule in a kilojoule ? ... How many bytes in a kilobyte ? Oh wait... > > How many 'u's in the word "colour"? > > Oh, wait - it depends on context, doesn't it? > > kB is 1024 bytes. The fact that "k" means something else in other contexts > is simply irrelevant. What about the fact that "kB" means different things depending whether it's used for bandwidth or memory capacity ? Does your brain have base 2 hard-coded so that you instantly know 50000000 bytes are 47.68MB ? Are people unable to do so pondscum ? Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
