Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:32:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Evan Champion" <evanc@concer.to> Cc: "Luigi Rizzo" <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Peter Wemm" <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c Message-ID: <199810301532.IAA21575@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:33:34 EST." <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> References: <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to>
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In message <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> "Evan Champion" writes:
: The correct SI prefix for kilo is 'k', so therefore it should be kb/s for
: kilobits per second, and kB/s for kilobytes per second.
:
: Some people argue that a capital K should be used to denote a factor of 2^10
: instead of 10^3, but no one ever complains about the equally ambiguous (and
: much worse in terms of error) mega ('M') and giga ('G') prefixes. Because
: of this I tend to consider 'k' to be the correct prefix, either in base 2 or
: 10.
:
: There is no prefix K in SI; the SI unit K is, of course, Kelvin.
K is the prefix for 1024, not Kelvin. m == Milli as a prefix and m ==
meters as a unit of measure. This is a common extnetion to SI that
goes back at least 30 years.
k is the SI unit for 10^3.
Warner
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