Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

En réponse à D Tse <exponent@...>:

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> Back to bytes, I've noticed that French labeling on disks of various
> types
> sold in the US uses the abbreviations <Ko>, <Mo>, etc. for kilobytes.
> megabytes, etc. Anyone know what the <o> is?
>
> --
> Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^
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> Octet (ie eight).
More exactly: "group of eight".

 I've seen Christophe use it occasionally here as
> well...
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Sorry! It's difficult to get past the old ways :))) . I learned what an octet
was much before I began learning English, and the symbol tends to stay even
when you know the word :))) .

Christophe.

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