Off topic: nasobky kB

[Michal Krause]

On 07/06/2000, David Rohleder wrote:

> > > Proc si myslite, ze KB je 1024 (nejake rozumne vysvetleni)? 
> > 
> > Ze by 2^10?
> 
> jenze kilo = 1000 (ze by to bylo z latiny?). Zadne 1000 tady nevidim.
> 
> <cite source=International System of Units (SI) SI prefixes>
> 
> Because the SI prefixes strictly represent powers of 10, they should
> not be used to represent powers of 2. Thus, one kilobit, or 1 kbit, is
> 1000 bit and not 2^10 bit = 1024 bit. To alleviate this ambiguity,
> prefixes for binary multiples have been adopted by the International
> Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for use in information technology.
> 
> </cite>
>  
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html

Jiste, ale tady jde o to slovo, ne o symbol. A jelikoz samozrejme
neprispivalo prehlednosti, ze kilo znamena jednou male k (1000) a jindy
velke K (1024), vznikly nove prefixy, a to zde jiz zminene kibi, mebi a
spol. Zdroj tentyz :)

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