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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:57:26 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c 
Message-ID:  <199810302057.NAA23984@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:36:12 EST." <199810301636.LAA04356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 
References:  <199810301636.LAA04356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>  <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> <199810301532.IAA21575@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <199810301636.LAA04356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett Wollman writes:
: <<On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:32:37 -0700, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> said:
: 
: > : There is no prefix K in SI; the SI unit K is, of course, Kelvin.
: 
: > K is the prefix for 1024, not Kelvin.
: 
: Not in SI it isn't.  SI has no prefix for 1024, or any other power of
: two for that matter.

There is no SI prefix for K.  Like I said before, K is a common
extention to the SI for 2^10 and has been for about 30 years.

Warner

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