* martin f. krafft: > also sprach Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.07.0859 +0100]: >> As for SI multipliers: deka is âdaâ (two letters!), hecto is âhâ, >> kilo >> is âkâ. All lower-case. > > I am not talking about SI multipliers, or can you express a "Byte" > in SI units?
I think it's dimensionless and therfore lacks an SI unit (like radians). > I am talking about metric multipliers. But bytes are usually not counted in metric (base ten) units. That's why we nowadays have kibibytes, abbreviated "KiB"; one kibibyte equals 2**10 bytes.
