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Bug#293897: "kB" should be "Kb"



* martin f. krafft:

> also sprach Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> [2005.02.07.0859 +0100]:
>> As for SI multipliers: deka is ‘da’ (two letters!), hecto is ‘h’, kilo
>> is ‘k’. All lower-case.
>
> I am not talking about SI multipliers, or can you express a "Byte"
> in SI units?

I think it's dimensionless and therfore lacks an SI unit (like
radians).

> I am talking about metric multipliers.

But bytes are usually not counted in metric (base ten) units.  That's
why we nowadays have kibibytes, abbreviated "KiB"; one kibibyte equals
2**10 bytes.



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