Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes respectively), never KB or Kb. k is "kilo," K is "Karat."Paul just mistook prefixes and units... "mm" is milimeter, where first 'm' means "mili" and second 'm' means "meter". One letter can have more meanings. On 19.04.06 11:49, Mike McCarty wrote:By convention, the "k" for "kilo" is permitted to be in either case.once again, the convention was that small 'k' means 1000, while capital K means 1024...
I can show you a meters tall stack of Electronics Magazines which
dispute that. Convention since I got involved (in about 1964 or so)
is "k" and "K" both mean 1000 when referring to electronics units.
Mike
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