Right and people are actually using those abbreviations. Certainly not in
my part of the universe. :-)
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From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Bob Frost
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:21 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: FW: VueScan file size
Derek,
Except in economics - $10K for example!
Having just looked this up, it seems that little 'k' is the correct
abbreviation for Kilo, whereas the other units, Mega, Giga, Tera, etc have
large letters as their abbreviations, M, G, & T.
The harddisk/memory confusion that you mentioned has now been resolved. In
1998 the IEC approved as an international standard a new set of prefix names
and symbols for the binary multiples as used in computers, so that they
would not any longer be confused with the decimal multiples of the SI
measurement system. You all knew that of course!
So, we should now be using:-
Ki (Kibi) for the Kilobinary value of 1,024
Mi (Mebi)for the Megabinary value of 1,048,576
Gi (Gibi) for the Gigabinary value of 1,073,741,824
etc.
As I understand it, you can still use MB for 1,000,000 bytes, but MiB for
1,048,576 bytes (or Mib for 1,048,576 bits).
Problem resolved.
Bob Frost.
----- Original Message -----
From: <derek_c@cix.co.uk>
In fact big K is used to mean 1024 rather than the 1000 of little k.
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