Right and people are actually using those abbreviations. Certainly not in my part of the universe. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Frost Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: FW: VueScan file size Derek, Except in economics - $10K for example! Having just looked this up, it seems that little 'k' is the correct abbreviation for Kilo, whereas the other units, Mega, Giga, Tera, etc have large letters as their abbreviations, M, G, & T. The harddisk/memory confusion that you mentioned has now been resolved. In 1998 the IEC approved as an international standard a new set of prefix names and symbols for the binary multiples as used in computers, so that they would not any longer be confused with the decimal multiples of the SI measurement system. You all knew that of course! So, we should now be using:- Ki (Kibi) for the Kilobinary value of 1,024 Mi (Mebi)for the Megabinary value of 1,048,576 Gi (Gibi) for the Gigabinary value of 1,073,741,824 etc. As I understand it, you can still use MB for 1,000,000 bytes, but MiB for 1,048,576 bytes (or Mib for 1,048,576 bits). Problem resolved. Bob Frost. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In fact big K is used to mean 1024 rather than the 1000 of little k. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.537 / Virus Database: 332 - Release Date: 11/6/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.537 / Virus Database: 332 - Release Date: 11/6/2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
