Yea I don't understand the issue here. SI is pretty clear, and this post explains the other standard a little bit.

It's really not all that crazy of a situation. What bothers me is when some applications call KiB KB, because they are old or lazy.

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reaperducer a day ago | parent | next [-]

because they are old

I keep using "K" for kilobyte because it makes the children angry since they lack the ability to judge meaning from context.

	▲	nixpulvis a day ago \| parent [-]
		You sly dog.

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ZoomZoomZoom 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

...old lazy and wrong! Capital K is for Kelvin.

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schiffern 2 days ago | parent [-]

>Capital K is for Kelvin.

It should be "kelvin" here. ;)

Unit names are always lower-case[1] (watt, joule, newton, pascal, hertz), except at the start of a sentence. When referring to the scientists the names are capitalized of course, and the unit symbols are also capitalized (W, J, N, Pa, Hz).

[1] SI Brochure, Section 5.3 "Unit Names" https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...

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fc417fc802 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Thus there's no ambiguity. kB is power of 10 and KB is clearly not kelvin bytes therefore it's power of two. Doesn't quite fit the SI worldview but I don't see that as a problem.

	▲	schiffern a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I often see it with "kB" too, so the proposed (ugly) hack doesn't really solve the problem. I think the author had it just right. There's a lot of inertia, but the traditional way can cause confusion.
	▲	xigoi a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.

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ZoomZoomZoom a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I was pretty sure I'd be corrected in some manner, being two of the aforementioned three. Thanks.