<--snip--> > Usually they mean "binary" kilo and mega, although it is not proper in > aspect of IS standard. However this is different story: for example > every RAM manufacturer use MB and GB instead of correct MiB and GiB.
Probably because the "i" qualifier is relatively recent? I do remember Seagate and others using decimal capacities because it made their disks appear bigger (e.g., 65K tracks rather than 64K). <--snip--> I would say that it is still so (the 160GB Samsung disk I bought has about 149 GiB capacity) and have never thought of "it made their disks appear bigger" as a reason. Isn't that so because disk capacity is not base 2 (i.e. base 1024) dependent? <--snip--> > BTW: In Europe we *say* "kilo" as abbreviation of "kilogram", but we > *write* it properly: "kg", so assumption about kilograms is bad shot. Perhaps in your neck of the woods, but I spent fourteen years in Austria and saw plenty of stores with prices with just a K. And technically, it should be Kg, not kg, because the convention is to capitalize multiplicative prefixes. <--snip--> K instead of kg: prices written manually with a chalk on small paper or wooden surfaces? Or maybe it is normal to me and I just did/do not perceived that? And I don't know what "technically" means in this context, but it is kg: <URL: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html > The smallest capitalized prefix is M for mega: <URL: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html > Binary multiplicative prefixes are all capitalized. -- Zaromil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
