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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: metric nitpicking, was Re: New 320Meg SCSI drive
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Date: 28 Jul 90 02:15:58 GMT
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In article <9447@goofy.Apple.COM> esmith@apple.com (Eric Smith) writes:
>In article <45806@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) 
>writes:
>> Note also, that in the metric system the letters are lower case where
>> as the K in KB and the M in MB are upper case...

>In the metric system (SI), the prefix for mega (x 10^6) is upper case M.
>Lower case m is milli (x 10^-3).

These are correct.

>In general all prefixes representing positive powers of ten use an upper
>case letter, thus K for kilo, G for giga, etc.

Sorry for yet another nitpicking on nitpicking, but "kilo" is
represented with lower case "k", not upper-case.


Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.bekeley.edu