Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and
> K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.

And for 10^6 vs 2^20?

> kegs perhaps? :)

Hmm, Mega -> Megs, Kilo -> Kils?

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