On Thursday 19 September 2002 23:26, Neil Stevens wrote:
> This change would cause short term, medium term, and long term confusion
> and annoyance.  If you want consistency, go tell those hard disk
> manufacturers to go back to using the true binary convention.

Ehm, how many people in this world calculate using the decimal system? And how 
many prefer using 'kilo == 1024' over that?

Why do you think a kilometer is 1000 meters? Much easier calculating, for one, 
and consistent with liters, grammes, and all other SI-units.

Ok, agreed, you're an American and there people are still doing the math for 
miles, feet and what more, but most of the world prefers decimal ;-)

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Martijn