Date   : Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:39:10 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Master Ethernet upgrade

Rick Murray wrote:
> The definition of "kilobyte" depends on whether you are talking to an
> old-school hacker (like 32K in the BBC micro), or some marketing bod who
 
Simple if you realise whether you're using units or multipliers. If
there's only a single symbol then by definition, it's a unit, not a
multiplier.
 
"K" as a unit is an amount of storage being 2^10 bytes.
 
"k" as a //multiplier// is 1000x
 
"B" as a //unit// is an amount of storage being 1 byte.
 
1K is 1024 bytes.
1kB is 1000 bytes.
1kb is 1000 bits.
 
And yes, 1kK is 1024000 bytes. Just like m- is a prefix and -m is a
unit, allowing mm to be a multiplied unit (millimetre), TT
(tetateslas) dd (decidays) hh (hectahours), fF (femotfahrads)...
 
See http//mdfs.net/Docs/ManPages/U/7Units
 
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