[RFC] SI Units in KDE

[Christoph Cullmann]

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On Saturday 21 September 2002 02:40, Germain Garand wrote:
> Le Vendredi 20 Septembre 2002 12:06, Scott Wheeler a écrit :
> > Quoting Christoph Cullmann <crossfire at babylon2k.de>:
> > > I would say use MB with 1000*1000, MiB with 1024*1024, as the standards
> > > says, as these standards are world wide accepted. They are perhaps
> > > confusing, but who cares? It is not our thing to make the standards but
> > > to use them. (I  don't like them, but it is simply correct to use them,
> > > but we could come up with just an other standard, like 1023*1023 =
> > > MkdeB ;)).
> >
> > Something comes to mind about the US state (Indiana, IIRC) that
> > "standardized" Pi to 3.  Simply more convenient they said.
>
> http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/indiana_pi_bill.html
>
> There are silly law bills proposed everyday throughout the world.
> They don't make a standard. They just make convenient counter-arguments :)
And btw., a international standard is a bit different to just a little 
law/pseudo standard of a little country somewhere in the USA/Europe/behind 
the moon. :P

cu
Christoph

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Christoph "Crossfire" Cullmann
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