| ▲ | SturgeonsLaw 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> “Kilo” can mean what we want in different contexts Fair enough. 1000 watts is a kilowatt 1000 hertz is a kilohertz 1000 metres is a kilometre 1000 litres is a kilolitre 1000 joules is a kilojoule 1000 volts is a kilovolt 1000 newtons is a kilonewton 1000 pascals is a kilopascal 1024 bytes is a kilobyte, because that's what we're used to and we don't want to change to a new prefix | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 1718627440 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Watt, hertz, meter, joule, volt, newton and pascal are all SI units, a byte is not. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | OJFord a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It's not even inconsistent if we consider kilo as meaning 10^3 in base 10 and 2^10 in base 2, rather than just '1000 times' always. | |||||||||||||||||
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