On Friday, Apr 23, 2004, at 14:43 US/Pacific, Carey @ NCSRadio wrote:

>
> Does anybody else find this extraordinary or extraordinarily odd?
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
"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. "

Heh.  What a good idea.  Too bad it was, oh, 10 years too late for
anyone to actually start using them...  A PC with 1 Gibibyte of memory.
(kibi, mebi, gibi...)  Right.

This wasn't a 1-Apr press release, was it?

BillW

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