Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 30, 2001, 14:09 |
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> "L" for litre? Here we use a simple lowecase "l" ...
>
In France it's possible but considered officially as a mistake. You must
normally use the capital L. It's official and international.
>
> PS It seems to be receeding, but a couple of years ago "Kb" for kilobyte
> was
> extremely widespread here around. It's yet another example that the
> human
> mind prefers irrgularity, since the same people who wrote that
> unfailingly
> wrote "km" for "kilometre".
>
But IIRC, the kilo in computer science is not the same as the official kilo-
prefix. Normally a kilo- is 1000. In computer science a Kilo- is 1024, i.e.
2^10. Maybe that's why they wanted to keep them different by writing Kb instead
of kb. Of course, it doesn't work anymore with mega- and giga- (it's
mandatorily M and G), and there a confusion arises (for instance, the computer
I've just bought has officially a 40Gb hard drive, but Windows sees 37.2Gb or
something. It's because the official number is calculated as: 1Gb=1000Mb, while
Windows uses: 1Gb=1024Mb).
Christophe.
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