You jumped in Jonathan De Boyne Pollard reply to me :
 
JS>  LA> Does "KiB" mean 1024 bytes?
JS> 
JS>  JDBP> Yes.

Then JBBP explained these (new) equivalences :
1024   --> kilobinary --> kibi --> Ki
1024^2 --> megabinary --> mebi --> Me
1024^3 --> gigabinary --> gibi --> Gi
1024^4 --> terabinary --> tebi --> Te

JS> I like k,m and g for the small ones, K,M, and G for the big ones...
JS> 
JS> Whats so tough about that?

You could use uppercase 'K' (the prefix for kilo is 'k'), but not more.

The prefixes for mega (10^6), giga, tera are uppercase 'M', 'G' and
'T', _not_ lowercase 'm', 'g', 't'. More than that, lowercase 'm' is
the prefix for milli (a thousandth part).

So this idea was just good with 'k' and 'K', but is quite over now
for sizes of memory, files, hard disks...

     Louis  
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 * ATP/OS2 1.42 *  Bonjour de Nantes, Bretagne.


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