Re: Types of numerals; bases in natlangs.
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 5:10 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Still less is there any logical reason to use a prefix meaning 1000 to mean
> 1024. The real detrimental language change here was started by whatever cretin
> first hit on the idea to use kilo = 1024.
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> "Kibibyte" might be 'bizarre', but "kilobyte" is just plain abuse of language.
You may not like it, but that's the way the language is used and has
been for decades. A centipede doesn't have 100 legs, and a millipede
doesn't have 1,000 legs. A megaphone isn't a million phones. Flying
lemurs aren't lemurs and don't fly. An English horn isn't a horn and
isn't particularly English either. Just because something isn't logical
doesn't make it wrong; language doesn't work that way (unless you make
your own language, then you can do whatever you want with it).
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