Use kB instead of KB - Githubissues

hackclub / putting-the-you-in-cpu

A technical explainer by @kognise of how your computer runs programs, from start to finish.

https://cpu.land

MIT License

4.71k stars 145 forks source link

Use kB instead of KB #30

Closed hugopl closed 10 months ago

hugopl commented 10 months ago

K is the temperature unit, Kelvin.

Quoting from Wikipedia:

The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as a multiplication factor of 1000 (103); therefore, one kilobyte is 1000 bytes.[1] The internationally recommended unit symbol for the kilobyte is kB.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

vercel[bot] commented 10 months ago

The latest updates on your projects. Learn more about Vercel for Git ↗︎

Name	Status	Preview	Comments	Updated (UTC)
putting-the-you-in-cpu	✅ Ready (Inspect)	Visit Preview	💬 Add feedback	Aug 11, 2023 11:33pm

kognise commented 10 months ago

Thanks for the PR! I think the meaning is actually correct here. KB is at best ambiguous, but kB is worse because it has an SI-defined meaning, as you said. Using kB for 1,024 would be worse than using KB for 1,024.