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   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Mike Easter wrote:   
   > A kilobyte is 1000 bytes, not 1024.  1024 bytes are a kibibyte.   
   >   
   > Abbreviations are one thing; prefixes are another.   
      
   And, for the 'record' the 'internationally accepted' abbreviation for   
   kilobyte is Kb, while the similarly accepted abbreviation for kibibyte   
   is KiB.   
      
   The 'problem' w/ the apparent discrepancy in the lettercase of the K/k   
   is the 'inconsistency' in the base 10 family, where only the kilo is a   
   lower case, and all of the rest starting w/ mega are capped; whereas in   
   the base 2 family, the prefix abbreviation letter is always capped.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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