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...old lazy and wrong! Capital K is for Kelvin.

• schiffern 8mo ago
  >Capital K is for Kelvin. It should be "kelvin" here. ;) Unit names are always lower-case[1] (watt, joule, newton, pascal, hertz), except at the start of a sentence. When referring to the scientists the names are capitalized of course, and the unit symbols are also capitalized (W, J, N, Pa, Hz). [1] SI Brochure, Section 5.3 "Unit Names" https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-EN.pdf https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...
  • fc417fc802 8mo ago
    Thus there's no ambiguity. kB is power of 10 and KB is clearly not kelvin bytes therefore it's power of two. Doesn't quite fit the SI worldview but I don't see that as a problem.
    • schiffern 8mo ago
      I often see it with "kB" too, so the proposed (ugly) hack doesn't really solve the problem. I think the author had it just right. There's a lot of inertia, but the traditional way can cause confusion.
    • xigoi 8mo ago
      This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.
  • ZoomZoomZoom 8mo ago
    I was pretty sure I'd be corrected in some manner, being two of the aforementioned three. Thanks.