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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 <32D3354C.592E@ugcs.caltech.edu>,
TE Khai-su <khaisu@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> I don't think you can write "a B is 10 dB" (thus mixing spelled-out 
> numbers with symbols), but have to write "1 B is 10 dB" or "1 B = 10 
> dB".
> 
> Sorry for nitpicking.

Some pretty obscure nits, if you ask me.  Who cast them in stone?

A mile is 1760 yards.  A km is 1000 m.  What's wrong with substituting
"a" for "1" in these contexts?
