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[Ron Jarrell]

At 12:50 AM 8/3/01 -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>    MY> The abbreviation for kilobyte is kB (1000 or 1024) or KB
>    MY> (1024).  Perhaps it should be spelled out to avoid confusion.

Actually KB isn't an official standard for multiples of 1024.  Computer
people are just supposed to know when a K means 1000, and when
it means 1024.  That's why Nist invented Kebi.  A Kebibyte, or KeB is
based on 1024 (As are Mebibytes, and Gebibytes.)  Not, mind you, that
you'll ever catch me pronouncing them outloud.

Yours in extreme nitpickiness,
-Ron