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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and
From:       Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-30 21:26:20
Message-ID: d9f848520906301426g550df24cp1b92ce27a38bf209 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/6/30 Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net>:
> Am Dienstag 30 Juni 2009 22:57:56 schrieb Benoit Jacob:
>> And moreover, "KB" is just a typo, the prefix for "kilo" is lowercase
>> k, not uppercase K which is reserved for Kelvin.
>
> This reason seems questionable: If unit acronyms were not allowed to collide
> with prefixes, why is "m" both meter and milli-, or "d" both day and deci-?
>
> The big "K" is reasonable IMO: There is no collision between different
> meanings in "k" and "K". (And most GNU programs use the uppercase "K".)

I was just recalling what the SI standards says :) and it says that
kilo(1000) is k not K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

We always say kg not Kg, km not Km, kA not KA, kV not KV, so it should
be the same for kB not KB.

Benoit
 
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