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That would be kB (kilobyte) and not kb (kilobit) or Kb (kelvinbit).


Yes, actually to be strict it would be kibibytes, KiB.

But in 1980/1981 kibibytes didn't exist, all we had was good ol' fat Kilobytes made out of 1024 bytes, and WE LIKED IT.

https://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.ht...


What's a "kelvinbit"?


Now I want to see someone derive a nice formula that results in a kelvinbit. Offhand, I'd guess something to do with information entropy in temperature sensitive media. (Entropy rather than density as that would be more along the lines of bits/kelvin I'd assume. Or heat output would be kelvins/bit.)


Exactly. ;)




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