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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:30:33 GMT, in article <32dab472.12299886@news.exodus.net>, Bill Vaughan <bill@osisoft.com> wrote:
>Of course since SI is so dang Eurocentric, the committee didn't seem
>to realize that "groups of three digits" is culturally biased. In
>Japan (and presumably in other countries that use a counting system
>derived from Chinese) digits are naturally grouped by fours, not
>threes.  And frankly I'm glad they didn't, else we might have two
>optional grouping standards as well as a comma and period.

In Chinese, digits are supposed to be grouped by fours, or so I was
taught in primary school. However, it is seen less and less frequently;
people just group them by threes without regard to how it is to be read.

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