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    $\begingroup$ This answer begs the question. $\endgroup$
    – prl
    Commented Mar 11, 2018 at 4:26
  • $\begingroup$ @prl If you are meaning dodge the question (answering a different question), then you are partly correct. I am trying to extend on other answers. And to give some advice on “How”, where the question was “Which”. $\endgroup$
    – ctrl-alt-delor
    Commented Mar 11, 2018 at 19:33
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    $\begingroup$ IMO this is the best answer, but it could be slightly improved by explicit mention of style. I.e. in the same way that there are different styles for citing papers, or for delimiting lists (vide Oxford comma), there are different styles for formatting numbers. In an IEC publication post-2000 you can assume that house style will be SI / *bi. Other organisations / publishers may use other styles. $\endgroup$
    – Peter Taylor
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 9:56
  • $\begingroup$ Pretty good answer. Two nitpicks: 0) For all the prefixes (k, M, Mi, Gi, etc.), use roman type, not italic; I suggest using \text{}. 1) Ki must have a capital K. $\endgroup$
    – Nayuki
    Commented Mar 13, 2018 at 5:02
  • $\begingroup$ @Nayuki “The first letter of each such prefix is therefore identical to the corresponding SI prefixes, except for "K", which is used interchangeably with "k", whereas in SI, only the lower-case k represents 1000.” — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix $\endgroup$
    – ctrl-alt-delor
    Commented Mar 13, 2018 at 11:32