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Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:46:23 -0800
- Message-id: <200701112046.23195.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:38, John E. Perry wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm'
> > as equivalent to upper-case 'M'.
>
> Maybe because M == Mega and m == milli? There's no such collision
> with k and K.
Ah. Perhaps that's it.
They could still allow 'mK' to equal 1 and 'mM' to equal 1024...
> John Perry
RRS
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> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm'
> > as equivalent to upper-case 'M'.
>
> Maybe because M == Mega and m == milli? There's no such collision
> with k and K.
Ah. Perhaps that's it.
They could still allow 'mK' to equal 1 and 'mM' to equal 1024...
> John Perry
RRS
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