Perhaps we should close this discussion. I found a page about SI prescriptions at: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
but I have never read any document using that convention. It says: 1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 2^20 B (=byte) Bit is always written out. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:24:49 +0100 (MET) , Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > >> > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > >> > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > >> > > > > >> > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or > >> > almost > >> > anything else) means 1000 (10^3). > >> > >> That's true and this is well defined in the SI. > >> But does that mean, we have to distinguish between mb, Mb, mB and MB? > > >I think we have to. > [snip] > >If we know what we are talking about, case sensitive does not matter. > >Better is to define first what you mean. > > I was taught, and use: KB == kilobyte, Kb == kilobit (and naturally > the same for mega*). Its standard, AFAIK, but of course the kids of > today... ;-) > > Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com > Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
