On Thursday 10 April 2003 12:22, malcolm.hunter at gmx.co.uk wrote: > A bit of research came up with this: > > http://www.romulus2.com/articles/guides/misc/bitsbytes.shtml > > I notice on the GMX pages that they use kB, but this might be a German > localisation. > > So I conclude that we should be sticking with KB for the English language at > least.
Well, that's a quite political discussion. There is indeed a trend to use 10^ instead of the ancient 2^ as it's simply easier to figure. Hard disc manufactors started to use GB for 10^9, which is technically wrong, but still 10^9 is easier to write in numbers than 2^30 :) But as KDE uses 2^10 for a KB we should use KB. But we (not the CCed lists, but KDE :) should think about switching to kB and 10^ Greetings, Stephan
