Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of jue ene 27 13:22:12 -0300 2011:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytes#Unit_symbol
> >
> > You can see the chart on the right.
>
> According to which, the JEDEC standard requires KB and the IEC
> standard requires KiB. What standard led us to use kB instead? It
> seems to generally mean 1000 instead of 1024.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Writing_unit_symbols_and_the_values_of_quantities
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