[eml-dev] [Bug 3492] - Unit should be pluralized by default

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3492


walbridge at nceas.ucsb.edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |




------- Comment #5 from walbridge at nceas.ucsb.edu  2009-03-21 23:41 -------
A couple of things:

We don't use the SI system for prefixing our quantity of bytes, which relies on
base 10 numbering instead of the base two numbering computing convention, and
I'm doubtful we'll adopt this somewhat confusing prefixing (e.g. saying 100 MiB
(mebibyte) instead of 100MB as we do now in the EML documentation).

I can't find any reference to 'byte' used in the singular referring to a
quantity, but can find a reference to the plural case being used in the NIST
reference:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Unless we can find some authoritative source which uses the singular, I think
we should still fix this. We use the plural form in the 2.0.1 documentation:

http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/eml-2.0.1/eml-physical.html#size