From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 20 06:40:02 2002
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:40:02 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103250408226566

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#if Martijn Klingens
> 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 ;-)

I'm 6'1" tall and I live 5 miles from the nearest major city. Ok,
so UK isn't quite into metric either, yet.... but this isn't a
metric/imperial issue, it's to do with powers of 10 versus powers
of 2.

Ok, let's do it. We just an autoconf macro to check that we're
compiling for a denary-based system and we're all set.

Rik

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