[TYPO3-core] RFC #13645: Bug and Cleanup: t3lib_div::formatSize should use IEC prefixes and appropriate units

Martin Kutschker masi-no at spam-typo3.org
Thu Feb 25 11:03:37 CET 2010


Sigfried Arnold schrieb:
> 
> Point is - calculations done with base 1024 but shown with SI prefixes
> (base 1000) - thats wrong. As a stated before: IEC prefixes are correct
> for base 1024, SI prefixes for base 1000.

"Everyone" knows that bytes are supposed to be used with a base of 1024. There is IMHO no need to
invent a Xi prefix. I don't like the IEC prefixes and will never use them.

Masi


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