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 of the web has proven inconclusive. > > Does someone understand the spelling issues involved enough to point > out the "correct" spelling and back it up with arguments?
"kB" rather than "KB"? I think whoever filed that bugreport got it wrong, as far as I know "kB" would always mean 1000 (bytes), since "k" = thousand, and never ever 1024. If he'd said "KiB" I'd agree with him to a certain degree, but "kB" simply can't be right. Rather than me trying to sum it up and risk typing something wrong, this page seems to address the issue well: http://www.romulus2.com/articles/guides/misc/bitsbytes.shtml Best regards, Henrik -- Henrik van Ginhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Storage for all kinds of waste http://mise.wox.org ... including humans 9799-5
