Re: Using standardized SI prefixes
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:49:18PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> Well, in SI units, KB never means kilobyte, and is not ambiguous at all;
> it's a kelvin??bel.
Nope. kelvin is a unit, not a prefix. K as a prefix means kilo, so KB
is kilo bell. You better have small values or you are dealing with
something very very loud. So yes already trying to apply SI units to
bytes has gone all wrong and they shouldn't have even tried in the first
place.
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Len Sorensen
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