On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:43:53 Josselin Mouette wrote:Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 17:36 -0400, Ivan Jager a écrit :Yes. Any time the unit is bytes. There is even a standard for it.I must have missed that one. Could you point us to this standard?I too would love to see that standard.
Ok, so it appears to be deprecated, but it does exist.October 30, 1986 ANSI/IEEE Std 1084-1986 IEEE Standard Glossary of Mathematics of Computing Terminology.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel1/2485/1030/00026589.pdf?isnumber=1030&prod=&arnumber=26589&arSt=&ared=&arAuthor="kilo (K). (1) A prefix indicating one thousand. (2) In statements involving size of computer storage, a prefix indicating 2^10, or 1024."
"mega (M). (1) A prefix indicating one million. (2) In statements involving size of computer storage, a prefix indicating 2^20, or 1,048,576."
Apparently back then giga wasn't ever applied to computer storage. :) Ivan