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Re: Using standardized SI prefixes



On Wednesday 13 June 2007 00:36, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

>
> I get 59 500 hits for "kibibyte" and 1.5 million hits for "kilobyte".
> That's about 4%, not 0.3%. In fact, it's sufficiently widespread to
> earn a place in dictionaries, IMHO.

It has already happened, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A471476
Now there is a real authority ;)

Phil.

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