It's not about wrong or right or compatibility.
It's a name. For a constant of value 1024*1024. We could rename it to _1MiB. But does that really help anyone? I'm sure it would rather confuse people, as a lot of people sadly don't know the difference. Also from a scientifical perspective it's still wrong. _1MiB would mean 1024*1024*bytes, but the constant doesn't contain bytes, it's a number without a unit. So should we rename it to _1Mi ? No, because Mi is a prefix and useless without any actual unit.
This discussion is completely useless. And as usual in reactos, it gets the most attention.
Timo
breakoutbox schrieb:
ShadowFlare wrote:
Both sides have their own historical reasons for keeping things the way they are.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb@googlemail.com mailto:ajfweb@googlemail.com> wrote:
I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard Disk manufacturers have tried to make them wrong in this case.I didn't talk about history.
But if You like :: let's look into history. One day in ...
".. December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the leading international organization for worldwide standardization in electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data processing and data transmission. The prefixes are as follows .." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
... and since 1998 things changed.
Cheers, Peter
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