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KiB MiB are not SI prefixes but IEC ones
- From: Olivier Crumeyrolle <Olivier dot Crumeyrolle at univ-lehavre dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:36:06 +0200
- Subject: KiB MiB are not SI prefixes but IEC ones
- Organization: Laboratoire de Mécanique de l'Université du Havre
I can read on the page http://cygwin.com/xfree/
"We are now using the SI prefixes for binary files sizes, according to"
<http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>
But according to this NIST web page,
"It is important to recognize that the new prefixes for binary multiples
are not part of the
International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system. "
Yours,
O Crumeyrolle.