[iaufwg] Final FITS review comments

[William Pence]

Mark Calabretta wrote:
> On Mon 2008/04/14 17:54:43 -0400, William Pence wrote
> in a message to: IAU-FWG <iaufwg at nrao.edu>
> 
>> 2.  In section 3.1, change "(approximately 2.1 GB)" to "(approximately 
>> 2.1*10^9 bytes)".
> 
> Why not change it to 2 GiB?

Because the Standard strives for clarity not cuteness :-).  I had never 
heard of GiB before and neither have a random sampling of my colleagues.

Bill
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