GiB vs. GB

Luciano Montanaro mikelima at cirulla.net
Fri Nov 2 21:48:53 GMT 2007


Il Friday 02 November 2007 22:34:26 Eike Hein ha scritto:
> Peter Penz wrote:
> > Any input is welcome :-) Thanks!
>
> I've been wondering in the past if we might want a KDE-wide
> option to switch between SI and traditional file size units
> in the Regional Settings, along with the other number for-
> mats preferences.
>
> Would that be useful?

Just to understand: switching to SI means showing decimal sizes?
Once you give the size in Megabytes, there is an implied loss of precision.
However, Since two kinds of Gigabytes are in use, I think if we can help 
making clear which is which is a step in the right direction.

Luciano






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