As long as you are willing to use two letter symbols why not
Kb - 1024 bits
KB - 1024 bytes

The "k" is meaningless without the second designator and you are
already case sensitive... 

"K" is Kelvin ?

...Unless of course the K is within a circle. Then it means something
else entirely.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:19:06PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > > > Using software compression resulted in 73 Gbyte data compressing
> > > > to 30 Gbyte.  (I use AIT-1 tapes, 35 Gbyte native, actually
> > > > amtapetype reports 33400 Mbyte: difference between marketing and
> > > > reality).
> > > 
> > > That's just the difference between GiB and GB :-)
> > 
> > That's exactly what I mean.
> > 
> > Manufactures of tapes and disks use the ISO standard where K=1000 etc.
> > While you can't blame them for misinformation (it is an international
> > standard), they ignore the fact that most computer-users use K=1024.
> > 
> > That's why Amendment 2 of IEC 60027-2 is proposed (Ki=1024, or k=1000
> > and K=1024, etc.).
> 
> No, K is Kelvin :-)
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                                               Geert
> 
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