Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 23:32:20 EST

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By author: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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>
> No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
> entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
> of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
> suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
>

Ewhat?!

-hpa

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