[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Print KB for 1024 bytes

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 15 February 2007 at 23:42, The Wanderer wrote:
> Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >M?ns Rullg?rd schreef:
> >
> >>Panagiotis Issaris said: [...]
> 
> >>>I do not think that the meaning of units should be context
> >>>dependent.
> >>
> >>They are.  Just accept it.
> >
> >Units such as "s", "m", "g"
> 
> "m" is obviously "meters", and "g" could be "gallons" or "the standard
> unit of gravity", but what's "s"?

'g' is grams and 's' is seconds.

> >and prefixes such as "M", "G", ... are _not_ context dependent.
> 
> Actually, yes, they are; "M" means either "1000000" or "1048576",
> depending on context, just as "K" means either "1000" or "1024"
> depending on context.

No, 'K' never means anything else than 1024.

Regards,
R.

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