Comment by fc417fc802
19 days ago
Thus there's no ambiguity. kB is power of 10 and KB is clearly not kelvin bytes therefore it's power of two. Doesn't quite fit the SI worldview but I don't see that as a problem.
19 days ago
Thus there's no ambiguity. kB is power of 10 and KB is clearly not kelvin bytes therefore it's power of two. Doesn't quite fit the SI worldview but I don't see that as a problem.
I often see it with "kB" too, so the proposed (ugly) hack doesn't really solve the problem.
I think the author had it just right. There's a lot of inertia, but the traditional way can cause confusion.
This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.