From: Mike Hommey Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:03:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output Message-ID: <20071103210321.GA25685@glandium.org> In-Reply-To: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > [ heh, I knew someone would say something ] > > Yes, to me, 1MB is 1024 KB. Always been, until those idiotic hard disk > manufacturers decided to redefine the common interpretation of what > everyone else used to consider what a MB is just to boost their > marketing claims. How many grams in a kilogram ? How many meters in a kilometer ? How many joule in a kilojoule ? ... How many bytes in a kilobyte ? Oh wait... And you know what ? It's not only a matter of hard disk manufacturers. How fast is gigabit ethernet ? Yep, 1000000000 bits/s How big would people say a 44000000 bytes file is ? 44MB or 42MB ? And my favourite: How many bytes in a 1.44MB floppy disk ? 1474560, that is, 1.44 * 1024000. Those who made this big mess are the ones who decided a KB was 1024 bytes, not the others. Mike