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- From: bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Byte me : ) (Was Re: Writing portable code)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.153125.1510@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 15:31:25 EST
- References: <1992Jun26.084220.20304@CS.ORST.EDU> <r3tlygk.resnicks@netcom.com> <1992Jun30.131203.6737@sci.kun.nl>
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- In article <1992Jun30.131203.6737@sci.kun.nl>, caspar@sci.kun.nl (Caspar Terheggen) writes:
- > In <2972@dozo.and.nl> jos@and.nl (Jos Horsmeier) writes:
- >
- >>As I understand it (and I might be totally wrong here,) lowercase
- >>characters are used for the decimal powers (k= 10^3, m= 10^6 etc.)
- >>and the uppercase characters for the powers of 2 (K= 2^10, M= 2^20 etc.)
- >
- > In the SI uppercase letters are used for decimal powers of 10^6 and
- > higher, e.g. MeV = Mega electronvolt, GW = Giga Watts (as in 1.21 GW), etc.
- > The abbreviation for kilo however is a lowercase k, so this scheme does
- > not work, unfortunately. Pity really, it would be nice to have some
- > sort of agreement on this. Anyone?
-
- I'll byte :).
-
- How about k2byte for kilo (base 2) byte, k10byte for kilo (base 10)
- byte, etc.
-
- kNbyte: k2byte or kilo2byte
- mNbyte: k10byte or mega10byte
-
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