[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Print KB for 1024 bytes
Måns Rullgård
mans
Fri Feb 16 15:16:34 CET 2007
The Wanderer said:
> Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:49 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>> It became a "de-facto standard" for some people, but most people have
>> never accepted a change in the meaning of k, M etc. As the usage
>> spread it also became obvious that it was a bad idea.
>
> "Most people" also do not appear to have been working routinely with the
> units in context of which the "1024" meaning was used - that being,
> units of data, specifically bytes.
Furthermore, nothing says that the majority is always correct. Just look
at any democratic government to see what happens if you operate under this
assumption.
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M?ns Rullg?rd
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