alt Hacker News> That doesn't conform to SI. It should be written as kB mB gB
Little m is milli, big M is mega. Little g doesn’t exist, only big G.
> That doesn't conform to SI. It should be written as kB mB gB
Little m is milli, big M is mega. Little g doesn’t exist, only big G.
Oh. Indeed you're correct. I was thinking in computer terms instead of scientific terms. Personally I see this as reinforcing that computers as a context wouldn't really benefit from using "proper" SI.
Note that no one is going to confuse mB for millibytes because what would that even mean? But also in practice MB versus Mb aren't ambiguous because except for mass storage no one mixes bytes with powers of ten AFAIK.
And let's take a minute to appreciate the inconsistency of (SI) km vs Mm. KB to GB is more consistent.