Actually, it's kB :-) kilo is the only standard prefix representing a positive power of 10 with a lowercase symbol.
Ben, when was the SI changed? I was taught that lower case denoted powers to the right of the decimal point and upper case denoted powers to the left of the decimal point.
d = deci or .1 c = centi or .01 m = milli or .001 etc., while D = Deka or 10 C = Centa or 100 K = Kilo or 1,000 M = Mega or 1,000,000
I forget what if any were between Kilo & Mega
Anyway, my Pocket Ref, 2nd ed. by Thomas J. Glover shows (using lower case though):
1 kilobyte = 2 to the 10th bytes + exactly 1,024 bytes 1 megabyte = 2 to the 20th bytes + exactly 1,048,576 bytes 1 gigabyte = 2 to the 30th bytes + exactly 1,073,741,284 bytes 1 terabyte = 2 to the 40th bytes + exactly 1,099,511,627,776 bytes 1 petabyte = 2 to the 50th bytes + exactly 1,125,899,906,842,6204 bytes
Also, now that LaCie is selling 1 TeraByte hard drives, how long before 1 PetaByte hard drives come out?
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