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#18181 05/04/03 07:00 PM
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Not a big deal, but the symbol for kilo is 'k', not 'K'.
$bytes returns a cap K when used with .suf. I havent checked dccs but they probably use K as well.

#18182 06/04/03 01:38 AM
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No. K is the correct symbol, since kilo here isn't 1000, it's 1024 (we're talking about bytes, and 1 KB = 2^10 = 1024 bytes). Technically, k is used for 10^3 and K for 2^10. Read this. Windows seems to agree with this too, since it uses KB everywhere.


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#18183 06/04/03 06:10 AM
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The way I've generally seen it is KB = kiloBYTE kb = kileBIT.

#18184 06/04/03 05:30 PM
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thats right, i did not know.
thank you qwerty for the explanations+link.

#18185 14/04/03 03:39 AM
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you should use Kb for kiloBIT, not kb, technically


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