RE: Licence or license?

Subject: RE: Licence or license?
From: peter -at- softwell -dot- co -dot- uk (Peter Hirons)
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)



> MiB=mebibyte (2 to the power 20, or 1,048,576 bytes)
>
> Similarly:
>
> KiB=kibibyte (2 to the power 10, or 1,024 bytes)

I've been in electronic engineering for over 30 years (and a technical
writer for 23 of those) and this is the first time I've seen these. Can
you quote a reference please.

In my experience MB nearly always means 1,048,576 bytes (unless it's
written by a hard disk marketing person :-) If it is critical, then
specify which you mean explicitly.

Sometimes k=1000 and K=1,024 (except in job adverts when they both mean
1000)

Peter


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RE: Licence or license?: From: Martin Polley

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