[ On , October 24, 1999 at 22:19:20 (+0200), Johan Danielsson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: "k"bytes or "K"bytes?
>
> woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> 
> > Yes, I believe upper case abbreviations are preferred (or perhaps even
> > required) by SI for metric measurements.
> 
>     III.1 SI prefixes
> [[....]]
>     10^3	kilo	k

Hmmm.... my memory must be based on some kind of urban legend....  All I
know is I didn't make up the rule I've been following on my own.

Now I don't know what to think, other than that it really doesn't matter
I guess, so long as as much internal consistency is maintained as is
possible....

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