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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-21 15:03:23
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On Friday 20 September 2002 13:06, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> Thus something like the metric system makes sense -- for people. 
> Humans have 10 digits and at this point most cultures use a base 10
> number system to do math.   Computers, on the other hand (heh :-) )
> work with two "digits".
>
> I'm with rikkus on this one.  Show me a computer that counts in base
> 10 and I'm all for converting to 1MB == 1000 bytes.  (Of course this
> would actually be vastly more data since a bit would have 10 possible
> states, but I digress...)

FYI, in the dawn of the computer age several computers indeed counted in 
base 10. But later base 2 was chosen for obvious reasons.

Regards,
Ingo

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