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From:
Trond Michelsen
Date:
October 10, 2001 09:24
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
20011010182031.E30117@crusaders.no
>> BTW, I was thinking once that numeral literals like 4k or 10G
>> (meaning 4*2**10, 10*2**30) would be very nice. What do you think?
> I think the meaning of the suffices are sufficiently vague as to make me 
> uncomfortable supporting them. Is 1K 1024 or 1000? I can make a good case 
> for both, and that's never a good sign.

There's always the possibility of supporting SI's binary prefixes ;)

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

-- 
Trond Michelsen


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