RE: [802SEC] FW: Just when you thought you had all this figured out
Beats me ... as the original usenet author said,
"Just when you though you had this all figured out." :-)
Frankly, I thought the whole "ibi" thing was rather
stupid ... but that's just my personal view.
Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pat_thaler@agilent.com [mailto:pat_thaler@agilent.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:22 PM
> To: carlstevenson@agere.com; stds-802-sec@ieee.org
> Subject: RE: [802SEC] FW: Just when you thought you had all
> this figured
> out
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> So, for the cases where megabyte was used to mean (10^3) *
> (2^10) bytes, will this now be a kilokibibyte?
>
> My objection to the IEEE standard on the same topic was that
> it appeared to require using the new units over other
> unambiguous options. In particular, when we use numbers such
> as 65,536 or (2^32 - 1) in a standard, we often mean exactly
> that number. Expressing it as 64 kibibytes wouldn't express
> the precision we need (as shown by the number often being a
> power of 2 minus 1 because it is represented by a bit field).
>
> The confusion occurs more in the real world than in
> standards. I haven't read any standards that left themselves
> ambigous on number of bytes. They generally write the number
> out as above or as a power of 2.
>
> Pat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevenson, Carl R (Carl) [mailto:carlstevenson@agere.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: 'stds-802-sec@ieee.org'
> Subject: [802SEC] FW: Just when you thought you had all this
> figured out
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>
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>
> FYI ... this was posted to one of the usenet ham
> newsgroups with the above subject :-)
>
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> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>