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The Forum Post Assistant (FPA) script has been developed to assist Joomla!® forum posters to be able to post relevant system, instance, PHP and troubleshooting information directly in to a pre-formatted forum post. This will save a few hours of posting back and forth, asking for, and explaining how to acquire useful information in order for other forum users to help troubleshoot a problem.
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Consistent use of (abbreviated) number forms #83

Closed sozzled closed 4 years ago

sozzled commented 4 years ago

The source contains references to "KiB" , "MiB" and "GiB". These abbreviations are not in common/conventional use.

Recommend changing all "KiB" to "KB", "MiB" to "MB" and "GiB" to "GB"

RussW commented 4 years ago

We calculate using 1024 (not 1000), hence the the use of standard KiB, MiB & GiB designations.

mandville commented 4 years ago

old school - 1024 - i understand rounding things up but thats just being lazy

RussW commented 4 years ago

It's the difference between techie math and salespersons math.

As far as I am aware (and remember) it's always been 1024, and the textual designations were updated many revisions ago to reflect that. I honestly don't see the problem with them as they are and personally use the 1024 calculation.

sozzled commented 4 years ago

@RussW is technically correct. That's not what I was taught at university but the nomenclature was changed 20 years ago and KiB is technically more accurate than KB, if we're dividing by 1000 and not by 1024.

RussW commented 4 years ago

Is this done now folks?

sozzled commented 4 years ago

The last time I looked it all seems OK. I'll close this issue.