For American numbers

[JanC]

Peter Hansen schreef:

> Given the clear "units='bytes'" default above, and my restricting
> my comments to "the rest of the computer world", it should be
> clear I was talking about a very limited subset of the planet.
> 
> A subset, however, which has an extremely strong attachment to
> 1024 instead of 1000 (for very good reasons), and which is
> less likely to abandon backwards compatibility and widely accept
> 1000 than the US is likely to adopt metric widely in the near
> future...

The problem is that that 'subset' uses kilo for both 1000 (at least hard 
disks & some network transmission speeds) and 1024 in computer science.


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JanC

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