I disagree with the attempted "new math" prefixes. The beauty of the metric system is the simplicity of the powers of ten. To piggyback on the prefix standard with a new base system that diverges that radically from the long accepted SI units is inappropriate. <br>
<br>Yet I do see a need for some type of shorthand notation. It just needs to be clearly different than Ki Mi Gi. Perhaps bK, bM and bG would be better suited. Especially given that people read the first and last letters (mostly the consonants) and devise the word from that based on surrounding context.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Brian Pitts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@polibyte.com">brian@polibyte.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> sections. That tends to throw off the numbers a bit. The total drive<br>
> amount is in 1000 instead of 1024 units so the division gets bad. The<br>
> actual space is a marketing scam.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Somewhat related:<br>
<br>
Us geeks really need to get with the program and refer to 2^30 bytes as<br>
a Gibibyte.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Suggestions_for_new_prefixes" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Suggestions_for_new_prefixes</a><br>
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<a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-unit-consistency" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-unit-consistency</a><br>
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All the best,<br>
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