Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
"more correct". The reporter however failed to cite the reference for
this, and a search of the web has proven inconclusive.
Does someone understand the spell
> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hrvoje> Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte".
Hrvoje> In a Debian bug report someone suggested that "kB" should
Hrvoje> be used because it is "more correct". The reporter
Hrvoje> however failed to cite
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
> bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
> "more correct". The reporter however failed to cite the reference for
> this, and a search
At 02:54 AM 2/8/2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
>bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
>"more correct". The reporter however failed to cite the reference for
>this, and a search of the web has proven i
At 03:09 AM 2/8/2002, Adrian Aichner wrote:
>I've seen common practice where multipliers greater unity (K, M, G, T)
>are uppercase, smaller unitiy (m, u, n, p, a) are lower case.
I believe that in physics journals, "k" is used for kilo to distinguish it
from "K" that is used for temperature "deg
On 08/02/2002 08:30:59 Henrik van Ginhoven wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
>> bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
>> "more correct".
This is the kind o
On 2002-02-08 08:54 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
> bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
> "more correct". The reporter however failed to cite the reference for
> this, and a search of the web ha
On 8 Feb 2002 at 4:26, Fred Holmes wrote:
> At 02:54 AM 2/8/2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> >Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
> >bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
> >"more correct". The reporter however failed to cite the refere
On 08/02/2002 13:58:55 Andre Majorel wrote:
>On 2002-02-08 08:54 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>
>> Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian
>> bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is
>> "more correct". The reporter however failed to cite t
On 2002-02-08 16:09 -, Ian Abbott wrote:
> This does not really apply to computer usage where typically "kilo"
> has been overloaded to mean 2^10 (=1024) because it happens to be
> close enough to its more correct meaning. That's why "K" is often
> used to mean 2^10 to avoid confusion with "k
Hello,
SI says:
* k is not 1024; it's 1000.
* K is not 1024; it's a temperature unit.
We must use either k or K.
Some people prefer k because:
* the SI says it's a prefix;
* M, which means 10^6 in SI, means 1024^2 in computing context, so
there's no reason why we couldn't use k for 1024.
I
"Ian Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd suggest either leaving them alone or adopting the IEC standards
> that Henrik referred to, i.e. "KiB" = "kibibyte" = 2^10 bytes
Ugh! Never!
Let them keep their "kibibytes" to themselves. :-)
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