- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 07:00:33 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- 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
-------- In message <78C9039F-F687-41A1-A85D-CC8B3B82211B@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham writes: >On 6 May 2020, at 6:29 am, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >>=20 >> 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=3DM Would that work without an explanation ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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