Full Version: Binary metric?
Using the base SI units (please note that you have to use kg not g!!!), why not express everything in binary floating point? This is the standard already used on computers. It's mebimeters of fun!
the same reason most people prefer not to express 1 gigabyte in terms of number bytes; i.e., it's shorthand and minimizes communication effort, though it increases the typical decoding effort since unit conversions are involved.
QUOTE(lucid_dream @ Sep 17, 2006, 07:18 PM) 
the same reason most people prefer not to express 1 gigabyte in terms of number bytes; i.e., it's shorthand and minimizes communication effort, though it increases the typical decoding effort since unit conversions are involved.
Uh, you have several things wrong here. For one, it's usually a gibibyte. And just as I said--the prefixes are already there. Mebimeter. Gibimeter.
you're right. I don't know where you're getting the prefixes from. Mebi-? Gibi-? What's this from?
QUOTE(lucid_dream @ Sep 17, 2006, 07:18 PM)
the same reason most people prefer not to express 1 gigabyte in terms of number bytes; i.e., it's shorthand and minimizes communication effort, though it increases the typical decoding effort since unit conversions are involved.
Or use hexadecimal of course.
QUOTE(lucid_dream @ Sep 17, 2006, 09:19 PM)
you're right. I don't know where you're getting the prefixes from. Mebi-? Gibi-? What's this from?
Kibimeter is 1024 meters. Use a factor of 1024 instead of 1000. And sub in "bi" for the second syllable. Kibimeter, mebimeter, gibimeter, tebimeter. Also, mibimeter, microbimeter, nabimeter, pibimeter.
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