-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 #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 - -- http://rikkus.info -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9isLE6rehpl6X9l0RAgVAAJ9j8n4gEkFX+6bumDnZKckPLkiM4ACfX/VW cZCiLzDNY9CJqQt/NIFdmBw= =n8h8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----