Re: [Monotone-devel] Patch

[Jon Bright]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Seriously I learned that messing with the universal 10^3 based
> prefix SI-system is not a good idea. So I would prefer kilobyte
> and megabyte over kibibyte and mebibyte. If you really must use KiB,
> why not label it correctly? 

I strongly support naming them "kB".  Without wishing to question your 
sanity, nobody sane uses the term "kibibyte".  For all that there's 
doubtless 4000 logical reasons why "kilobyte" should mean 1000 bytes and 
for all that the marketing departments of hard disk manufacturers love 
pretending it does, *everyone else* thinks a kilobyte means 1024 bytes.

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