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Re: Using standardized SI prefixes



On Monday 11 June 2007 15:10:24 Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Montag 11 Juni 2007 22:15 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> > Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 15:25 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> > > > You seem to fancy the K-is-1024--k-is-1000 convention
> > >
> > > No, I hate that convention. K and k should only ever refer to 1024.
> >
> > /me waits for the day measuring jugs are graduated in powers of two,
> > just to please a group of hackers who don't like SI units.
>
> And you have to change their world in an useless atempt?
> Abbreviations are ambiguous by design. Who actually says that KB means
> kilobyte?

Well, in SI units, KB never means kilobyte, and is not ambiguous at all; 
it's a kelvin·bel. 

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