For American numbers

[Mike Meyer]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> writes:

> Peter Hansen wrote:
>> Only for hard drive manufacturers, perhaps.
>> For the rest of the computer world, unless I've missed
>> a changing of the guard or something, "kilo" is 1024
>> and "mega" is 1024*1024 and so forth...
>
> Given that there are perfectly good ISO prefixes for the multiples of
> 2**10, I don't see any reason to continue misusing the 10**3 prefixes
> for the purpose.

>From what I found <URL: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>, it's not clear those are ISO prefixes yet - but they have been
adapted by some standards agencies. 

Possibly you have better references?

         <mike
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