18 Apr
2010
18 Apr
'10
9:43 p.m.
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(a)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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