30 Dec
2003
30 Dec
'03
14:28
Tom Emerson
On Saturday 27 December 2003 5:14 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Also note that "gig" has no meaning while GB (10^9 B) and GiB (2^31 B) are standardized measures of file length.
What, didn't you see his "-h" command modifier for "human readable"?
I still haven't broken all links to my ape ancestors and thus the modern-man "human readable" units like Gig for file size, mb for RAM capacity, and mhz for CPU speed confuse me. But don't worry, the trend suggests that people using the obsolete concepts (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html, http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html) will become extinct soon. BTW, I made a mistake, 1 GiB = 2^30 B, I was thinking about the 2 GiB = 2^31 B limit. -- A.M.