Michael Schwingen wrote:
> Jon Povey wrote:
>> My 2 pence:
>>
>> "KB/s" is "correct" as far as I understand, but obviously there is
>> still ambiguity. Some poor souls might still confuse KiB/s to be
>> bits instead of bytes.
>>
> Nope. The SI prefix for kilo("1000") is a lower-case "k", so kB/s,
> would be correkt - let's use correct teminology, please.

k for kilo = 1000
K for kibi = 1024

So KB/s. Capital K, capital B.
I'm talking common accepted usage rather than SI units. It seems the standard 
should be for KiB/s, but I have never seen that.

But obviously there are plenty of people who disagree, so it looks like it 
needs to be written out in full.

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