- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 10:14:31 +1000
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@varnish-cache.org>, Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>, gen-art <gen-art@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure.all@ietf.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, last-call@ietf.org
On 6 May 2020, at 6:29 am, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > In class B people deal with huge numbers by downscaling: Millions, > Trillions, GigaBytes and PetaBytes. Nobody really cares if the > stimulus was 1.000.000.000.000 or 1.000.000.000.010 dollars, so > sawing of the right hand side is a good way to make numbers manageable, > at the cost of suffixing multiplier: $125M This makes me wonder whether we should add an example to stimulate readers' imagination in this direction; e.g., Example-ScaledInt: 4503;suffix=M -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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