From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 12014d,7134e36a23e57417 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa463d25bcbdaa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid12014d,gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: misc.metric-system,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: decimal separator (international? References: <8h34o0dbc2h70ojvsst879nfkthko7suok@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:41:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1099060913 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:41:53 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:41:53 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com misc.metric-system:1413 comp.lang.ada:5866 Date: 2004-10-29T14:41:53+00:00 List-Id: Peter Hermann wrote: > In comp.lang.ada Markus Kuhn wrote: >=20 >>Gigapounds and teradollars seem perfectly acceptable solutions >=20 > clever :-) :-) >=20 > but: > giga or gibi ? > tera or tebi ? I suppose you can talk about gibipounds and tebidollars if you like, but = why? We need those prefixes for things that occur in powers of two for=20 technical reasons, like memory cells. I see no reason to talk about=20 money in powers of two. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu