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[lojban-beginners] Re: panonono
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:17:27PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 7/12/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:42:30PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > On 7/12/05, diLItyr <deletesoftware@yandex.ru> wrote:
> > > > .i xu di'e cu drani .i lu .i le skina datnyvei be lenu la
> > > > murkas. cu se pamsa'e ku ku poi samki'o li cicibi li'u
> > > >
> > > > (The video file of petted Murka, that's 338Kb [in size])
> > >
> > > If {samki'o} means "kilobytes", it would seem correct.
> >
> > It does not; it means "kibi-".
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
>
> Well, I guess it would still be acceptable, if the "bytes" are
> understood as the x3 of {samki'o}. I don't suppose there are many
> other units that get prefixed with kibi-.
Nope, not many. :-)
-Robin
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