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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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In article <5b3m2l$e61@palladium.transmeta.com>,
hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:

[referring to the proposal to adopt the "gio" in place of the kg]

> This will *never* happen.  The kilogram is one of the "common use"
> units -- there is no way to get people to change that for anything but
> an *extremely* good reason, and this just ain't it.

Oh, I don't know about that.  The shilling was a pretty common-use unit in
the UK, and though there were good reasons for decimalisation, I hardly
think their goodness was extreme.
