[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Print KB for 1024 bytes

Måns Rullgård mans
Fri Feb 16 00:48:36 CET 2007


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:

> On Friday, 16 February 2007 at 00:29, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thursday, 15 February 2007 at 23:42, The Wanderer wrote:
>> >> Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >and prefixes such as "M", "G", ... are _not_ context dependent.
>> >> 
>> >> Actually, yes, they are; "M" means either "1000000" or "1048576",
>> >> depending on context, just as "K" means either "1000" or "1024"
>> >> depending on context.
>> >
>> > No, 'K' never means anything else than 1024.
>> 
>> K never means anything other than Kelvin, the standard unit for
>> temperature.
>
> Funny.
>
> I meant it as a prefix... but of course you knew that already.

Ah, but the kilo prefix is a lowercase k.  Kelvin is uppercase K.

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