[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Wed Mar 18 12:15:11 GMT 2009


Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:

> New progress bar shows traffic statistics with kB suffix.
> I found this suffix odd because everywhere in computer industry
> I see only "KB".
> 
> Furthermore Wikipedia claims that "k" used for 1000 units (SI),
> while "K" for 1024 units (JEDEC):

Better, if this is to be fixed, would be to correctly use the SI units
prefixes <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Prefixes> for
each of decimal and binary multiples. In this case, it would be kB
only for units of 1000 bytes, and KiB only for units of 1024 bytes.

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Ben Finney




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