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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

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 9mo 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 9mo ago
This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.