Sorry to get pedantic, but K is in common usage to mean 2^10 and there has been lot of confusion about mega being 2^20 vs 10^6 for storage. (In fact, I think someone sued Seagate or Western Digital over the discrepancy).
To fix this, IEC 60027-2 (2000) defines a set of prefixes and abbreviations to use with binary quantities. For example 2^10 is a "kibi", abbreviated "Ki", with "bi" pronounced "bee". 2^20 is a "mebi", abbrev. "Mi". They're not SI, and I'll be the first to admit that I've never seen these outside of a standards doc. Summary here: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html some discussion here: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/Kibi-mebi-gibi-tebi-pebi-and-all-that Aaron Heller (hel...@ai.sri.com) Menlo Park, CA US -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130407/5604b8e3/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
