Timeline for Should I teach that 1 kB = 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes?
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| Jun 18, 2020 at 8:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 21:01 | comment | added | Willtech | Note that the SI prefix is k (not K) whereas 1024 bytes is ordinarily represented as 1KB (1KiB if we must). | |
| Mar 14, 2018 at 17:52 | comment | added | supercat | @ctrl-alt-delor: That's great for representing micro; my point is that all of the "M-ish" characters are used up for SI prefixes, leaving none for a power-of-two prefix. | |
| Mar 14, 2018 at 16:03 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor |
@supercat If you have a compose key, then you can type µ by pressing <kbd>compose</kbd><kbd>m</kbd><kbd>u</kbd>, or on this site by typing $\mu$ to get $\mu$
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | supercat | @ctrl-alt-delor: I agree that the use of uppercase M for 1E6 and lowercase m for 1E-3, and lowercase mu for 1E-6, along with the fact that uppercase Mu looks like an uppercase M, means there's no M-like letter available for anything else. From a pronunciation standpoint, using letter names for powers of two, "e.g. 4 em-bytes", "2 gee-bytes", or even "1.44 kilo-kay bytes" [the floppy size], would seem good. The only problem is with the written form. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 23:09 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @Supercat, I would agree if it was unambiguous that £100m = 10p ($100m = 10¢). If also does not scale to M, G, T … | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 23:03 | comment | added | supercat | @ctrl-alt-delor: The fact that there is no SI uppercase "K" SI prefix means that it can unambiguously represent 1024, especially if it's pronounced "kay" rather than "kill-o". IMHO, use of lowercase k for 1024 is and always has been sloppy. | |
| S Mar 13, 2018 at 20:12 | history | suggested | Nayuki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Formatting of units: italic to roman
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| Mar 13, 2018 at 11:34 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @nayuki feel free to do the other formatting: Italic → roman. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 11:32 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @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 | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 5:02 | comment | added | Nayuki |
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.
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| Mar 12, 2018 at 9:56 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | 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. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:33 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @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”. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:31 | history | edited | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2018 at 4:26 | comment | added | prl | This answer begs the question. | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 13:14 | history | edited | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 13:08 | history | edited | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 12:51 | history | edited | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 10:39 | history | answered | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |