Author: Rafael Andrist
Date: 12:15:30 06/03/01
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On June 03, 2001 at 15:08:31, Heiner Marxen wrote: >When indicating their amount of work, many programs print how many "nodes" >they have searched. With the current speed of computers these numbers >quite quickly become rather large. To be more readable it is a good idea >to show "kilo-nodes" instead of raw "nodes". "kN" appears to be the >popular shorthand. > >Now I'm wondering, whether the "kilo" here stands for 1024, or for 1000? >I know that in different contexts sometimes 1024 and sometimes 1000 is >meant for "kilo". Which one is it here? according to SI, "kilo" means always 1000, the only exception is if bytes are meant, where kilo means 1024. So 1 kN should be 1000 N. In a paper about hashing I've seen "kilopositions" which meant 1024 positions, but there the author had indicated it that he uses "kilo" this way. Rafael B. Andrist > >BTW, has anyone seen "megaNodes" in use? > >Regards, >Heiner
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