Thanks to all who made their comments following my complaint about the misuse of
K for 1000. Maybe a final word about this problem!
The IEC (even more pedantic!) are attempting to fix this by creating a new set
of units for binary multiples (Amendment 2 to IEC International Standard IEC
60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2:
Telecommunications and electronics.):
Ki (kibi) = 2E10 (1024)
Mi (mebi)= 2E20 (1 048 576)
Gi (gibi) = 2E30 (1 073 741 824) etc.
For details (and to check this is not some early April 1 joke) see the SI prefix
description on the US National Institute of Standards and Technology website at:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html (confirms that x1000 is small
k!) and then the binary prefix description at:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
I don?t see the whole IT industry changing its usage to this new set of prefixes
!
Roger
Gary McInturff <[email protected]> on 06/01/2000 22:49:38
Please respond to Gary McInturff <[email protected]>
To: "'Egon H. Varju'" <[email protected]>, EMC-PSTC <[email protected]>
cc: (bcc: Roger Viles/PLY/Global)
Subject: RE: Y3K
Oh my last birthday my children wanted to know if I was really, really sad
when the Dinosaur's all died - heavy sigh!
Anyway - M is for Mega or 1,000,000 and K for Kilo or 1,000
But I'm sorta betting you're getting tired of hearing that.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Egon H. Varju [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:17 AM
To: EMC-PSTC
Subject: Re: Y3K
>Roger, way back in the days of the caveman, 1M ohms = 1000
ohms. Guess
>going metric changed everything.
Strange ... During my dinosaur hunting days, 1M ohm used to
be = 1 000 000
ohms. Maybe we grew up in parallel universes ...
Egon :-)
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