On Friday 04 June 2010 04:16:46 pm John H. Jenkins wrote: > On Jun 4, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Luke-Jr wrote: > > The computer industry already has units of 'kilobyte' and such referring > > to powers of 1024. > > You mean, of course, kibibyte. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
Classical computing has always defined a kilobyte as 1024 bytes. I reject SI's attempt to force their broken system on what is an established de facto standard.

