Paul,
The circle-K was as non-amanda as the Kelvin comment, just couldn't
let it go by.
Its one of the symbols (by one of the multiple authorities) that
oversee/verify Jewish Kosher food preparation (kosher being "legal,
within guidelines", not necessarilly related to food, there are other
[many other] things that can be regulated. Other authorities use different
symbols).
Of course I now have to meantion a "D" within a square (which unless
I'm mistaken is an aproval symbol for electrical devices by a specific
testing company.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:51:34PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Brian Cuttler wrote:
>
> > As long as you are willing to use two letter symbols why not
> > Kb - 1024 bits
> > KB - 1024 bytes
>
> There is an international standard about this, and it is pretty
> precise about the case sensitivity too:
>
> "kilo" needs to be a lower "k" in the official standard.
> However, Ki (binary kilo = 1024) is with upper case.
>
> see: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
>
> (and numerous other sites -- the real official standard is not
> online: I can't verify there.)
>
> But amanda is case insensitive for [kmg] and mulplies by 1024 too.
>
>
> > ...Unless of course the K is within a circle. Then it means something
> > else entirely.
>
> K within a circle??? I already know C, R within a circle, but
> not heard of K with a circle. Ready to learn more :-)
>
>
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> ***********************************************************************
> * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, *
> * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, *
> * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, *
> * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, *
> * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... *
> * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out *
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