No, no one is answering the question I tried to ask. Sorry if I was unclear.
I am NOT asking "what is the difference between kilo and kibi?" or "is it right to refer to 1024 as 1K?" or anything like that. I am asking what you CALL that KIND of notation. If my program outputs numbers as 1234 and 4560000 but your program outputs the same values as 1.234K and 4.56M, what would you call the *format* that your program uses? Your program outputs numbers in ______ notation. Mine OTOH outputs numbers in _____ notation. Perhaps "powers of 1000 notation." Any term more compact than that that could be used as a control statement option? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT - What is the proper term for "K" notation? Charles Mills wrote: >...ultra-precise word jockeys here. ...have already discussed 1001 times on IBM-MAIN and posted/refered in IBM-MAIN this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes There you will learn about kibi and friends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN