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fc417fc802 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

Thus there's no ambiguity. kB is power of 10 and KB is clearly not kelvin bytes therefore it's power of two. Doesn't quite fit the SI worldview but I don't see that as a problem.

schiffern 5 months ago | [–]

I often see it with "kB" too, so the proposed (ugly) hack doesn't really solve the problem.

I think the author had it just right. There's a lot of inertia, but the traditional way can cause confusion.

xigoi 5 months ago | [–]

This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.

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