Two negations problem

Mike Patterson mpatters at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Sep 5 12:38:33 UTC 2003


Bill Moran wrote:
> Roubíček Zdeněk (PragoNet) wrote:
> 
>>  Hello DOCs
>>
>>  On the FreeBSD web at 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x221.html 
>>
> 
>  > at the very end you can read:
> 
>>
>> :It should be at least 128 kB, and it should not be not be a power of 2.
>>
>>  It sounds strange in english and I am not sure if this is correct. I 
>> believe
> 
>  > what the author of this document was trying to say is:
> 
>>
>> :It should be at least 128 kB, and it should be a power of 2.
>>
>>  Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> 
> The handbook obviously has a typo in it, but the statement should be:
> 
> "It should be at least 128 kB, and it should not be a power of 2."
> 
> Look at the example, which uses a stripe size of 273.

Then since 128kb obviously _is_ a power of two, perhaps the wording 
should be changed to "It should be greater than 128kb, and should not be 
a power of 2."  ?

Mike



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