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		EuanReid 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? Upper-K is for Kelvin, so can't be mixed in as a prefix in case someone decides to commit physics crimes and talk about temperature-mass (Kkg).

nayuki 40 days ago | [–]

Not true. Several SI prefixes already overlap with units. m is both metre and milli-. T is tesla and tera-. c is a prefix of candela (cd) but also centi-. (G is gauss (cgs unit, not mks/SI) and giga-.)

adiabatichottub 40 days ago | [–]

Just throw some Joules on top there and it'll be alright

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