Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

>
> Hmm, it may be true that the capital "K" is there to indice the 1024
> multiplier, but it's still outright wrong to write "Kb" for "kilobyte"
> as
> lowercase "b" indicates bit in compsci. A kilobit is not the same as a
> kilobyte, of course.
>
In France we don't have this problem, since what you call a byte we call it
an "octet" (a "group of eight"), abbreviation 'o'. Unless you have a very bad
eyesight, it's impossible to confuse Kb and Ko.

Christophe.

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