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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 <32dab374.12045320@news.exodus.net>,
bill@osisoft.com (Bill Vaughan) writes:
> rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes) wrote:
> 
> >A school physics teacher would discourage pupils from reading the
> >weight of some object (0.25g) as "null Komma fuenfundzwanzig Gramm", but
> >would prefer "null Komma zwei fuenf Gramm", not only because it's better
> >practice, but also because centigrammes are not common units.
> 
> Dang, and I woulda thought "ein Viertel gramm" fer sure. :-)

A physics teacher?  In private perhaps, but never in the classroom.
OK, I should have used 0.37 or something.
