Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:36:19 +0000
From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>,
       Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani <tkil@scrye.com>,
       Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
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> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and
> K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.

K is Kelvin, k is kilo-

See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide
and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following it.
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