Comment on Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per MonthparentComments−sebastianavina11yk is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.−yen22311yUnless you're talking about kilobytes, in which case k = 1024.Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte.Standards are hard. It's not just the Americans' fault−killface11yblame the brits, not the americans.−psykovsky11yCan we just blame one person instead of an entire country?−nkozyra11yBlame Todd. Todd did this to us.−allard11yBlame the accountants. We're engineers et al. We use SI.−jeroen11yK, not k.−tempestn11yActually, he's right; the abbreviation for kilo (thousand) is lower-case k. The abbreviation for mega (million) is upper case M. (Lower case m is milli (thousandth).)
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k is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.
Unless you're talking about kilobytes, in which case k = 1024.
Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte.
Standards are hard. It's not just the Americans' fault
blame the brits, not the americans.
Can we just blame one person instead of an entire country?
Blame Todd. Todd did this to us.
Blame the accountants. We're engineers et al. We use SI.
K, not k.
Actually, he's right; the abbreviation for kilo (thousand) is lower-case k. The abbreviation for mega (million) is upper case M. (Lower case m is milli (thousandth).)