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Date   : Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:40:14 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Master Ethernet upgrade

Sprow wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Hmm, some dubious logic there. 1kK is 1000 kelvin, did you mean
> 1kKB?
 
No, 'cos you can only have one multiplier prefix. It should have
had a ;) as memory units never take prefixes, you use a different
unit.
 
I keep seeing people writing and saying <degree-symbol>K, even
though, as you used youself, the units are Kelvins, not degree
Kelvins. 20 degrees Celcius is 293 Kelvin, not 293 degrees Kelvin.
 
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