Full Version: Alone I use mebimeter.
Nobody in the entire world has used "mebimeter". It's been around about a decade (the kibibyte and such), but nobody has used it! I like things elegant. Most of all, I like binary! It is so strange that I am so alone in wanting everything binary. As well as wanting everything in TAI (unaffected by leap seconds). A mebimeter is 1024*1024 meters.
QUOTE(Cybert @ Sep 19, 2006, 06:20 AM) 
Nobody in the entire world has used "mebimeter". It's been around about a decade (the kibibyte and such), but nobody has used it! I like things elegant. Most of all, I like binary! It is so strange that I am so alone in wanting everything binary. As well as wanting everything in TAI (unaffected by leap seconds). A mebimeter is 1024*1024 meters.
If you are earnest in your desire for binary notation, then you should say a mebimeter is 100000000000000000000 meters. See how much easier that is!
QUOTE(Rick @ Sep 21, 2006, 09:45 PM)
QUOTE(Cybert @ Sep 19, 2006, 06:20 AM)
Nobody in the entire world has used "mebimeter". It's been around about a decade (the kibibyte and such), but nobody has used it! I like things elegant. Most of all, I like binary! It is so strange that I am so alone in wanting everything binary. As well as wanting everything in TAI (unaffected by leap seconds). A mebimeter is 1024*1024 meters.
If you are earnest in your desire for binary notation, then you should say a mebimeter is 100000000000000000000 meters. See how much easier that is!
Yeah yeah. I'm not even going to bother checking that either!
I've never heard the term "mebimeter" and I don't seem to locate any explanation on the web. 1024*1024 decimal is the same as 10000000000 * 10000000000 in binary which does come out to a one with twenty zeros (binary) if that is the definition. Who originated the term and is it for real?
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