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Subject:Re: 50-ohm vs. # symbol From:Josee Sevigny <joseey -at- M3ISYSTEMS -dot- QC -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:07:06 -0500
You're right Chuck,
According to "Dictionnaire des Nouvelles Technologies", "K" stands for
kilobyte (1024), "k" stands for the kilo symbol (1000).
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> From: chuck mccaffrey \ Internet: (cmccaffrey -at- spyglass -dot- com)
> In article <mnj-1408951328490001 -at- mnj -dot- cmo -dot- ornl -dot- gov>, mnj -at- ornl -dot- gov (Bonnie
> Nestor) wrote:
> > (By the way, bringing up the use of "K" to indicate file size isn't
really
> > fair, because "K" is a nonstandard abbreviation for thousand -- not a
unit
> > name. )
> Is K a non-standard abbreviation for thousand or for 2**10=1024?
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