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[src/trunk]: src Add orders(7) as a miscellaneous manual page.



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/553431434f05
branches:  trunk
changeset: 759170:553431434f05
user:      jruoho <jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Nov 30 20:19:30 2010 +0000

description:
Add orders(7) as a miscellaneous manual page.

diffstat:

 distrib/sets/lists/man/mi |   5 ++-
 share/man/man7/Makefile   |   4 +-
 share/man/man7/orders.7   |  87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diffs (140 lines):

diff -r 52ab05661149 -r 553431434f05 distrib/sets/lists/man/mi
--- a/distrib/sets/lists/man/mi Tue Nov 30 19:50:25 2010 +0000
+++ b/distrib/sets/lists/man/mi Tue Nov 30 20:19:30 2010 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: mi,v 1.1255 2010/11/28 01:58:39 christos Exp $
+# $NetBSD: mi,v 1.1256 2010/11/30 20:19:30 jruoho Exp $
 #
 # Note: don't delete entries from here - mark them as "obsolete" instead.
 #
@@ -1968,6 +1968,7 @@
 ./usr/share/man/cat7/miscellaneous.0           man-obsolete            obsolete
 ./usr/share/man/cat7/msafer.0                  man-obsolete            obsolete
 ./usr/share/man/cat7/nls.0                     man-reference-catman    .cat
+./usr/share/man/cat7/orders.0                  man-reference-catman    .cat
 ./usr/share/man/cat7/packages.0                        man-obsolete            obsolete
 ./usr/share/man/cat7/pkgsrc.0                  man-reference-catman    .cat
 ./usr/share/man/cat7/re_format.0               man-reference-catman    .cat
@@ -4570,6 +4571,7 @@
 ./usr/share/man/html7/mailaddr.html            man-reference-htmlman   html
 ./usr/share/man/html7/mdoc.html                        man-groff-htmlman       html,groff
 ./usr/share/man/html7/nls.html                 man-reference-htmlman   html
+./usr/share/man/html7/orders.html              man-reference-htmlman   html
 ./usr/share/man/html7/pkgsrc.html              man-reference-htmlman   html
 ./usr/share/man/html7/re_format.html           man-reference-htmlman   html
 ./usr/share/man/html7/release.html             man-reference-htmlman   html
@@ -7153,6 +7155,7 @@
 ./usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.7                    man-groff-man           .man,groff
 ./usr/share/man/man7/msafer.7                  man-obsolete            obsolete
 ./usr/share/man/man7/nls.7                     man-reference-man       .man
+./usr/share/man/man7/orders.7                  man-reference-man       .man
 ./usr/share/man/man7/packages.7                        man-obsolete            obsolete
 ./usr/share/man/man7/pkgsrc.7                  man-reference-man       .man
 ./usr/share/man/man7/re_format.7               man-reference-man       .man
diff -r 52ab05661149 -r 553431434f05 share/man/man7/Makefile
--- a/share/man/man7/Makefile   Tue Nov 30 19:50:25 2010 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man7/Makefile   Tue Nov 30 20:19:30 2010 +0000
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-#      $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.22 2010/06/26 11:15:27 jmmv Exp $
+#      $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.23 2010/11/30 20:19:31 jruoho Exp $
 #      @(#)Makefile    8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
 
 # missing: eqnchar.7 man.7 ms.7 term.7
 
 MAN=   ascii.7 environ.7 hier.7 hostname.7 intro.7 mailaddr.7 \
-       nls.7 operator.7 pkgsrc.7 release.7  \
+       nls.7 operator.7 orders.7 pkgsrc.7 release.7  \
        script.7 setuid.7 signal.7 sticky.7 symlink.7 sysctl.7 \
        tests.7
 
diff -r 52ab05661149 -r 553431434f05 share/man/man7/orders.7
--- /dev/null   Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man7/orders.7   Tue Nov 30 20:19:30 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+.\" $NetBSD: orders.7,v 1.1 2010/11/30 20:19:31 jruoho Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
+.\" by Jukka Ruohonen.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS
+.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
+.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS
+.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
+.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
+.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
+.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
+.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd November 30, 2010
+.Dt ORDERS 7
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm orders
+.Nd orders of magnitude
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The following table lists common multiple of bytes.
+.Bl -column -offset 2n \
+"Kilobyte" "Prefix" "Power of 2" "Power of 10"
+.It Sy Name Ta Sy Prefix Ta Sy Power of 2 Ta Sy Power of 10
+.It Kilobyte Ta kB Ta 2^10 Ta 10^3
+.It Megabyte Ta MB Ta 2^20 Ta 10^6
+.It Gigabyte Ta GB Ta 2^30 Ta 10^9
+.It Terabyte Ta TB Ta 2^40 Ta 10^12
+.It Petabyte Ta PB Ta 2^50 Ta 10^15
+.It Exabyte Ta EB Ta 2^60 Ta 10^18
+.It Zettabyte Ta ZB Ta 2^70 Ta 10^21
+.It Yottabyte Ta YB Ta 2^80 Ta 10^24
+.El
+.Pp
+The following table lists common orders of magnitude as a power of ten.
+.Bl -column -offset 2n \
+"Septillionth" "Order" "Prefix" "Symbol" "Decimal"
+.It Sy Name Ta Sy Order Ta Sy Prefix Ta Sy Symbol Ta Sy Decimal
+.It Septillionth Ta -24 Ta yocto Ta y Ta 0.000000000000000000000001
+.It Sextillionth Ta -21 Ta zepto Ta z Ta 0.000000000000000000001
+.It Quintillionth Ta -18 Ta atto Ta a Ta 0.000000000000000001
+.It Quadrillionth Ta -15 Ta femto Ta f Ta 0.000000000000001
+.It Trillionth Ta -12 Ta pico Ta p Ta 0.000000000001
+.It Billionth Ta -9 Ta nano Ta n Ta 0.000000001
+.It Millionth Ta -6 Ta micro  Ta mu Ta 0.000001
+.It Thousandth Ta -3 Ta milli Ta m Ta 0.001
+.It Hundredth Ta -2 Ta centi Ta c Ta 0.01
+.It Tenth Ta -1 Ta deci Ta d Ta 0.1
+.It One Ta 0 Ta - Ta - Ta 1
+.It Ten Ta 1 Ta deca Ta da Ta 10
+.It Hundred Ta 2 Ta hecto Ta h Ta 100
+.It Thousand Ta 3 Ta kilo Ta k Ta 1000
+.It Million Ta 6 Ta mega Ta M Ta 1000000
+.It Billion Ta 9 Ta giga Ta G Ta 1 000000000
+.It Trillion Ta 12 Ta tera Ta T Ta 1000000000000
+.It Quadrillion Ta 15 Ta peta Ta P Ta 1000000000000000
+.It Quintillion Ta 18 Ta exa Ta E Ta 1000000000000000000
+.It Sextillion Ta 21 Ta zetta Ta Z Ta 1000000000000000000000
+.It Septillion Ta 24 Ta yotta Ta Y Ta 1000000000000000000000000
+.El
+.Sh STANDARDS
+There have been various attempts to standardize the set of binary prefixes.
+Organizations such as International Electrotechnical Commission
+.Pq Tn IEC
+have proposed new prefixes such as
+.Dq kibi ,
+.Dq mebi ,
+.Dq gibi ,
+and
+.Dq yobi ,
+but the adoption has been slow at best.



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