[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Print KB for 1024 bytes

[The Wanderer]

Ian Caulfield wrote:

> On 15/02/07, Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at mediaxim.be> wrote:
> 
>> Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
>>> M?ns Rullg?rd schreef:
>>>> Michel Bardiaux said:
>>>>> For consistency with command line options
>>>> Rejected.  The standard abbreviation for kilo is a lowercase k.
>> 
>> For kilo-1000 or kilo-1024? Currently, in the *same* message, k in
>> kB means 1024 and k in kbits/sec means 1000. They cant both be
>> right!
> 
> Wikipedia recommends 'k' for 1000, and 'Ki' for 1024
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte)

...and "Ki" represents "kibi", which like the rest of its ilk is an ugly
abomination, not to be used on pain of ME HATES YOU FOREVER.

(Maybe it can occasionally be grudgingly allowed for in cases where
ambiguity is not acceptable - of which this might be one - but it can
never be more than an inappropriate workaround, at best, and must never
be absolutely required. Redefining existing terms such as "kilo", which
had long been able to mean either "1000" or "1024" depending among other
things on context, to cover only a subset of their previous meanings is
well beyond the authority of whatever group it was which actually
invented the new terms. This has been a very abbreviated rant.)

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