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Old January 21st 04, 06:00 AM
NuT CrAcKeR
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No, KB for KiloBytes. The K and M are always capitalized. Its the ending
that confuses most people.

For example...

"I have a 1.5MB DSL connection"

This is obviously incorrect, as megabytes is not a quantity used to measure
bandwidth. The correct statement would be,

" I have a 1.5Mb DSL connection "
... as megabits are indeed a unit of measure used to quantify bandwidth.

I have no idea what a small k would be used for... perhaps the measure of
calories?

kC = kila-calories...

just a though.

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NuT CrAcKeR wrote nothing besides:

KB... Not MB


kB ... Not KB

[ or put differently, why is it that most people use just this (binary)
prefix with a different case to the normal use of decimal prefixes as
used throughout science as per the SI Unit Prefixes endorsed by the
International System of Units ? ]

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Old January 24th 04, 01:05 PM
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NuT CrAcKeR wrote:

"... et al." wrote in message
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NuT CrAcKeR wrote nothing besides:

KB... Not MB


kB ... Not KB

[ or put differently, why is it that most people use just this (binary)
prefix with a different case to the normal use of decimal prefixes as
used throughout science as per the SI Unit Prefixes endorsed by the
International System of Units ? ]



No, KB for KiloBytes. The K and M are always capitalized. Its the ending
that confuses most people.


Where are they always capitalized? Only in the computer-related fields!
Why there if nowhere else?

kilo is designated "k" when used as a prefix in SI units.
mega is designated "M" when used as a prefix in SI units.

While the unit designation (b vs. B) do confuse people because so many
writers doesn't know and/or care about the difference or they think the
meaning is given by the context, the use of nonstandard capitalization
of the prefix (only for Kilo, not for Mega etc) _should_ confuse people.
That was kinda the point of my post, while nitpicking on a nitpicker ;-)


For example...

"I have a 1.5MB DSL connection"

This is obviously incorrect, as megabytes is not a quantity used to measure
bandwidth. The correct statement would be,

" I have a 1.5Mb DSL connection "
.. as megabits are indeed a unit of measure used to quantify bandwidth.


Whether you should have a 1.5 megabyte (per second) or a 1.5 megabit
(per second) DSL connection is for you and your ISP to negotiate ;-)


I have no idea what a small k would be used for... perhaps the measure of
calories?

kC = kila-calories...

just a though.


Was that example choosen deliberately? You know the SI Unit for Energy
is joule (J), don't you? Calorie has been left by the wayside along with
erg, inch & pound et cetera, a long time ago.
For what small k _is_ used for look around the world (outside the
computerfield) at any unit whose amount is best given in kilo-unit.

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Old January 24th 04, 02:38 PM
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.... et al. wrote:

NuT CrAcKeR wrote:

"... et al." wrote in message
s.invalid...

NuT CrAcKeR wrote nothing besides:

KB... Not MB

kB ... Not KB

[ or put differently, why is it that most people use just this (binary)
prefix with a different case to the normal use of decimal prefixes as
used throughout science as per the SI Unit Prefixes endorsed by the
International System of Units ? ]



No, KB for KiloBytes. The K and M are always capitalized. Its the ending
that confuses most people.


Where are they always capitalized? Only in the computer-related fields!
Why there if nowhere else?

kilo is designated "k" when used as a prefix in SI units.
mega is designated "M" when used as a prefix in SI units.

While the unit designation (b vs. B) do confuse people because so many
writers doesn't know and/or care about the difference or they think the
meaning is given by the context, the use of nonstandard capitalization
of the prefix (only for Kilo, not for Mega etc) _should_ confuse people.
That was kinda the point of my post, while nitpicking on a nitpicker ;-)


For example...

"I have a 1.5MB DSL connection"

This is obviously incorrect, as megabytes is not a quantity used to
measure bandwidth. The correct statement would be,

" I have a 1.5Mb DSL connection "
.. as megabits are indeed a unit of measure used to quantify bandwidth.


Whether you should have a 1.5 megabyte (per second) or a 1.5 megabit
(per second) DSL connection is for you and your ISP to negotiate ;-)


I have no idea what a small k would be used for... perhaps the measure of
calories?

kC = kila-calories...

just a though.


Was that example choosen deliberately? You know the SI Unit for Energy
is joule (J), don't you? Calorie has been left by the wayside along with
erg, inch & pound et cetera, a long time ago.
For what small k _is_ used for look around the world (outside the
computerfield) at any unit whose amount is best given in kilo-unit.


According to the NIST, "k" denotes decimal 10^3, while "Ki" denotes the
closest power of 2, 2^10 or decimal 1024. Perhaps that's the source of the
confusion?


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Old January 25th 04, 09:20 PM
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J. Clarke wrote:

.... et al. wrote:

NuT CrAcKeR wrote:

"... et al." wrote in message
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NuT CrAcKeR wrote nothing besides:


KB... Not MB

kB ... Not KB

[ or put differently, why is it that most people use just this (binary)
prefix with a different case to the normal use of decimal prefixes as
used throughout science as per the SI Unit Prefixes endorsed by the
International System of Units ? ]


No, KB for KiloBytes. The K and M are always capitalized. Its the ending
that confuses most people.


Where are they always capitalized? Only in the computer-related fields!
Why there if nowhere else?

kilo is designated "k" when used as a prefix in SI units.
mega is designated "M" when used as a prefix in SI units.

While the unit designation (b vs. B) do confuse people because so many
writers doesn't know and/or care about the difference or they think the
meaning is given by the context, the use of nonstandard capitalization
of the prefix (only for Kilo, not for Mega etc) _should_ confuse people.
That was kinda the point of my post, while nitpicking on a nitpicker ;-)


snip


According to the NIST, "k" denotes decimal 10^3, while "Ki" denotes the
closest power of 2, 2^10 or decimal 1024. Perhaps that's the source of the
confusion?


kibi's, mebi's, and gibi's ...,
now that something you see all the time ... Not !
No, i really don't think that's it. We're missing the i's in KB and GB
and so on, at least i never see them.

Links for anyone curioius:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

I just came to think that the reason might be that it's a remnant from
an earlier computer era (like FORTRAN, M$-DOS and such) where lower-case
letters hadn't been invented yet. Can that be it?

NIST? Something needed in parallel to ANSI? I had never heard of that
USoA institute before.

Ok, i'll stop flogging the dead horse now ..., this really has nothing
to do with Nvidia videocards, now is it?

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