On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 09:10:46AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 09/08/2018 08:54 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:03:06AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 10:58:16PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > >>> I'd rather use KB and MB suffixes or at least capital 'K'. > >> I like k and M better. > > k and M work for me too. It we were going to be anal then we should > > go with the IEC standard of KiB and MiB, but we're trying to make > > But ^K and ^M. > > Small 'k' .. I don't know what that is.
SI uses 'k' for kilo and 'K' for Kelvin. It's an anomaly because all the other magnifying prefixes use capital letters, but it's km, not Km; kg, kV, kJ, kN, kW and kΩ.
