From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:05:26 +0000
Date: 2004-10-29T15:05:26+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mq2a52-b29.ln1@news.naggum.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6chdod39yz.fsf@palau.inf.ed.ac.uk>
* Julian Bradfield @2004-10-29 13:55
>>* Dmitry A. Kazakov @2004-10-29 12:41
>>> In computing Giga = 2**30
>> That is just plain false. Adjust your opinions accordingly.
> It's not plain false, it's just usually false.
Excuse me for being precise, but a statement that pretends to be true
always but is actually only true some of the time, is entirely false: It
is /not/ true that �in computing�, giga = 2^30. The simple fact that a
lot of uses of �giga� in computing are 10^9, invalidates the statement
and its broad claim.
> A cursory Google shows that a lot of people think it primarily means
> gibi in computing!
When I want to know how mistaken how many people are, I also use Google.
Erik Naggum @2004-303
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2004-10-22 10:20 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-22 13:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-22 16:20 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-22 19:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-22 20:45 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Chris Kaese
2004-10-25 10:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Stefan L�rchner
2004-10-29 9:59 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 10:23 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 11:22 ` Markus Kuhn
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 13:43 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Erik Naggum [this message]
2004-10-29 15:29 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-30 12:15 ` Binary prefixes in Google's calculator Markus Kuhn
2004-10-30 14:23 ` Binary prefixes and decimal separators " Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:58 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 14:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-29 15:15 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 15:48 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 16:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-11-01 10:14 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 18:53 ` Octal number system Andrew Nowicki
2004-11-01 21:47 ` Björn Persson
2004-11-02 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 16:09 ` decimal separator (international? Andreas Prilop
2004-10-30 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 14:21 ` Gee Pee (was: decimal separator (international?) Christoph Paeper
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