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   From: trepidation@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:36:35 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
   > On 6/7/24 14:05, Mike Easter wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > And case matters for the last letter too. b is bits, B is bytes.   
      
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