Brian Cuttler wrote:

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

There is an international standard about this, and it is pretty
precise about the case sensitivity too:

"kilo" needs to be a lower "k" in the official standard.
However, Ki (binary kilo = 1024) is with upper case.

see:  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html

(and numerous other sites -- the real official standard is not
online:  I can't verify there.)

But amanda is case insensitive for [kmg] and mulplies by 1024 too.

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

K within a circle???  I already know C, R within a circle, but
not heard of K with a circle.  Ready to learn more :-)


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