Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 14:22 |
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En réponse à Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
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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?
>
"octet", the French word for "byte". Admit that it's less confusing than the
strange bit-byte of English :))) .
Christophe.
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