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Re: update material display
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: Jim Kingdon <kingdon at panix dot com>
- Cc: pgarrone at acay dot com dot au, <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:37:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: update material display
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> "K" should be "k" but other than that, I don't have much of an
> opinion. Source: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html and
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html (Upper case "K" is
> usually a synonym for what would be better abbreviated "Ki").
Of course Peter is from .au, so he is not "bound" by a .us
.gov entity such as NIST. But, what you refer to is essentially
international convention. The binary units are less
well-accepted; how many mebibytes of RAM do you see advertised?
Eric