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From: John Hornkvist
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 03:58

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In article <Co2q0M.89E@acsu.buffalo.edu> kalisiak@cs.buffalo.edu (Chris Kalisiak) writes:

   Brian L. Brush (USF) (brush@soleil.acomp.usf.edu) wrote:
   >Grant Edwards (grante@hydro.rosemount.com) wrote:

   >: Wrong.  For disk capacity K is 2^10 and M is 2^20.  For communications
   >: the normal base 10 numbers are used: K = 10^3, M = 10^6.

   >     Perhaps you should not speak with such confidence.  Consider this
   >evidence from the technical notes for a Maxtor Model 7345 drive:

   >     "One megabyte (as defined by Maxtor), equals 10^6, or one million
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   >      bytes."  (sic)

   This is the key phrase here. More marketing bullshit.

Get used to it. Until there is an ANSI, ISO or SI definition, you will
have to live with it.

   >Most manufacturers adhere to such a practice for obvious reasons.  Only your
   >software measures it "properly."
   >     The "k" as a unit abbreviation is small, by the way, not capital.

Actually there is no such thing as an official specification of Mega
to mean 2^20. There is one that says that Mega means million, in the
metric system. However, in the computer world it is natural to use
Mega for 2^20 as that number is much more relevant.

There seems to be a general agreement that 1k is 1000, as specified in
the SI, where as 1K is 1024. 

So, if you wish to express yourselves clearly, just write 1KK.
But on the other hand Giga would be KKK...;^)

Regards,
:>John

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