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

[Måns Rullgård]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:

> On Friday, 16 February 2007 at 15:13, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> 
>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski said:
>> > On Friday, 16 February 2007 at 00:49, Robert Swain wrote:
>> >> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> >> >On Friday, 16 February 2007 at 00:29, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> >> >>Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:
>> >> >>>No, 'K' never means anything else than 1024.
>> >> >>K never means anything other than Kelvin, the standard unit for
>> >> >>temperature.
>> >> >
>> >> >Funny.
>> >> >
>> >> >I meant it as a prefix... but of course you knew that already.
>> >>
>> >> The kilo 'k' is lower case. The Kelvin 'K' is upper case.
>> >
>> > What part of "prefix" is difficult to understand? Kelvin (K) is a unit,
>> > binary kilo (K) is a prefix. Sheesh... you are pulling my leg, right?
>> 
>> I'm pulling nobody's leg.  Have you never encountered compound units?
>> If case were insignificant, one couldn't distinguish newton-meters (Nm)
>> from nanometers (nm), or ampere-seconds (As) from attoseconds (as).
>
> Looks like you're ignoring the context. This is pointless anyway.
> I don't care what you do about this issue too much, but whatever you
> do, please make sure it's consistent and documented.

I'm intending to do nothing at all.  The current code is perfectly
fine to me.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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