Re: lynx-dev Prefixes (was: Re: Question about WHEREIS)

[David Woolley]

> And "K" as 10^3 has been scientific and engineering standard
> for far longer than that.

No it has not.  k is 10^3,  K is 2^10.  The engineering use is
lower case.

The ambiguous case is M, but then most people now make the faux
pas of writing m, which is clearly 1E-3.

Only a very small number of people will understand what is going on
when they see Ki or Mi.

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