Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> IIRC, somebody somewhere wanted to start calling it KiB or something
> stupid for when you actually mean 2^10...
I think that "somebody somewhere" would be the International
Electrotechnical Commission.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers also adopted
the naming convention in their IEEE 1541-2002 standard, as well as the
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.
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- Warp
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