Lars Hamren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Download speeds are reported as K/s, where, I assume, K is short
for kilobytes.
It's meant to stand for what is now known as kibibyte.
The correct SI prefix for thousand is k, not K:
The prefix doesn't refer to thousands.
Lars Hamren wrote:
Download speeds are reported as K/s, where, I assume, K is short for
kilobytes.
The correct SI prefix for thousand is k, not K:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
SI units are for decimal-based numbers (that is powers of 10) whereas
computer programs
Tony Lewis wrote:
For what it's worth, according to Wikipedia either k or K is acceptable for
1024:
I don't agree with that,.. SI units like K/M/G etc. are specified by
international standards and those specify them as 10^x.
The IEC defined in IEC 60027 symbols for the use with base 2 (e.g.
...
The IEC defined in IEC 60027 symbols for the use with base 2 (e.g. Ki,
Mi, Gi)
...
Possibly, but absent a _HUGE_ effort, no one is going to ever bother
using these.
Craig
Craig A. Finseth wrote:
...
The IEC defined in IEC 60027 symbols for the use with base 2 (e.g. Ki,
Mi, Gi)
...
Possibly, but absent a _HUGE_ effort, no one is going to ever bother
using these.
Sometimes difficult changes must be done to not stop advancement...
(This is
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
I don't agree with that,.. SI units like K/M/G etc. are specified by
international standards and those specify them as 10^x.
The IEC defined in IEC 60027 symbols for the use with base 2 (e.g. Ki, Mi,
Gi)
All of this is described in the Wikipedia article I
Lars Hamren wrote:
On the subject of powers. Ask a thousand programmers how they
interpret kilobyte and megabits, and I think that very few will see
powers of ten there. The power-of-two interpretation has prevailed for
the last forty years at least, and will probably continue to do so for
Hi,
The point I was initially trying to make was that, independent of the
interpretation of kilo (1000 or 1024), the correct abbreviation is
k, not K.
Most people won't mind K, but some do. Fewer people, I think, will
mind k, so that would be the better choice.
On the subject of powers. Ask a
From: Lars Hamren
Download speeds are reported as K/s, where, I assume, K is short
for kilobytes.
The correct SI prefix for thousand is k, not K:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
To gain some insight on this, try a Google search for:
k 1024
I've seen
