Re: Hexadecimal digits

From: Luke-Jr (luke@dashjr.org)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 17:07:33 CDT

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    On Friday 04 June 2010 04:16:46 pm John H. Jenkins wrote:
    > On Jun 4, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
    > > The computer industry already has units of 'kilobyte' and such referring
    > > to powers of 1024.
    >
    > You mean, of course, kibibyte. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes.

    Classical computing has always defined a kilobyte as 1024 bytes.
    I reject SI's attempt to force their broken system on what is an established
    de facto standard.



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