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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.

>>nixpul+(OP)
...old lazy and wrong! Capital K is for Kelvin.

>>ZoomZo+45
>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-...

>>schiff+s7
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.

>>schiff+s7
I was pretty sure I'd be corrected in some manner, being two of the aforementioned three. Thanks.

>>nixpul+(OP)
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.

>>reaper+aR
You sly dog.

>>fc417f+Fc
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.

>>fc417f+Fc
This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.