Talk:Kilo-

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[edit] Move

This should be moved to kilo- and get a {{lowercase}} tag. See Talk:Micro for rationale. — Omegatron 17:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hard drive size

Sorry, Am I being really dumb here? Surely if they sold you a 1 Tera byte hardrive, and you thought, ah that's only 1x10^12 bytes when actually it's (1024^4=) 1.0995x10^12 bytes then they're understating how big their drives are; and although I see some weak ethical argument in misrepresenting their product I personally won't be complaining.

[edit] Kilo, big or small letter?

Just a thought. Is the use of k/K/Kilo correct in the text? Isn't Kilo supposed to be (large) K and not (small) k as the other great numbers, i.e. not like the small numbers? In the computer section both k (in kb) and K (in KB) is used, wich does complicate the issue. (Thavox 11:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC))

The correct prefix for kilo- is a lower case k. Similarly, the hecto- prefix is a lower case h, and the deca- prefix is a lower case d. It may be confusing compared to the other larger-than-unity prefixes such as upper case M and G, but that's just the way it is. Goosnarrggh 15:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

However, it is not lowercase at the beginning of a sentence. Kilograms are the SI units of mass. The {{lowercase}} template which somebody slapped on here is totally inappropriate. Gene Nygaard 17:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

You're absolutely right; the word, when spelled out, should be capitalized if it appears at the beginning of the sentence. However, for completeness, the abbreviated prefix 'k' always appears in lower case no matter what the circumstances. Goosnarrggh 21:51, 24 October 2007 (UTC)