Jonathan De Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Louis Aubree:

 LA> Does "KiB" mean 1024 bytes?

 JDBP> Yes.

 JDBP> The basic idea runs as follows:  The metric prefixes
 JDBP> "kilo-", "mega-", "giga-", "tera-" and so forth represent
 JDBP> powers of 10.  For powers of 2 one adds "binary", producing
 JDBP> "kilobinary-", "megabinary-", "gigabinary-", "terabinary-",
 JDBP> and so forth.  These are then shortened to "kibi-", "mebi-",
 JDBP> "gibi-", and "tebi-", and the abbreviations for them are
 JDBP> "Ki", "Me", "Gi", and "Te".

 JDBP> I've been trying the terms on "for size" for the past few
 JDBP> months, and I quite like them.  My FITSIZE utility (part of
 JDBP> OS2CLU version 2.0) already supports "kB"/"MB"/"GB" for
 JDBP> powers of 10 and "KiB"/"MeB"/"GiB" for powers of 2.   

I like k,m and g for the small ones, K,M, and G for the big ones...

Whats so tough about that?
                                              Jack 
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