+++ Matus UHLAR - fantomas [21/04/06 08:54 +0200]:
>On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
>>Explained another way (hopefully);
>>If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.
>The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'.
On 19.04.06 12:09, Mike McCarty wrote:
Nope. Both the "K" and the "k" have been used in electronics
to mean "times 1000" since I got involved in about 1965 or so.
I have never seen/heard about that, but you may be right. However, for
computer busines (I'm kinda involved only since 1986) I've always and
everywhere seen the explanation I provided above.
All very strange. I grew up with lowercase for small, uppercase for large:
m milli- 10^-3
c centi- 10^-2
d deci- 10^-1
D deca- 10
H hecta- 10^2
K kilo- 10^3
M mega- 10^6
G giga- 10^9
etc...
It was simple in those days... before computers. But I wouldn't want to be
without...
Also before cereal packs started confusing calories and Kcal. Can we get any
further OT I wonder?
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richard
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