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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: SI units
From:       Christoph Anton Mitterer <cam () mathematica ! scientia ! net>
Date:       2007-01-15 16:57:51
Message-ID: 45ABB28F.1060307 () mathematica ! scientia ! net
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Lars Hamren wrote:
> On the subject of powers. Ask a thousand programmers how they
> interpret kilobyte and megabits, and I think that very few will see
> powers of ten there. The power-of-two interpretation has prevailed for
> the last forty years at least, and will probably continue to do so for
> some time.

Anyway,.. it's wrong and confusing, just because lots of peoples use it
as 2^x it won't become correct...

Chris.
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