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RE: KiB MiB are not SI prefixes but IEC ones
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Olivier Crumeyrolle" <Olivier dot Crumeyrolle at univ-lehavre dot fr>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:14:28 -0400
- Subject: RE: KiB MiB are not SI prefixes but IEC ones
Olivier,
I never thought someone would catch me on that one... but you are correct.
KiB and MiB are not SI prefixes, they are IEC prefices. I changed the news
item accordingly.
Thanks,
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Olivier Crumeyrolle
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: KiB MiB are not SI prefixes but IEC ones
>
>
> I can read on the page http://cygwin.com/xfree/
> "We are now using the SI prefixes for binary files sizes, according to"
>
> <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>
>
> But according to this NIST web page,
> "It is important to recognize that the new prefixes for binary multiples
> are not part of the
> International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system. "
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> O Crumeyrolle.
>
>