Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 05:50:21 06/04/01
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On June 03, 2001 at 15:15:30, Rafael Andrist wrote: >On June 03, 2001 at 15:08:31, Heiner Marxen wrote: > >>When indicating their amount of work, many programs print how many "nodes" >>they have searched. With the current speed of computers these numbers >>quite quickly become rather large. To be more readable it is a good idea >>to show "kilo-nodes" instead of raw "nodes". "kN" appears to be the >>popular shorthand. >> >>Now I'm wondering, whether the "kilo" here stands for 1024, or for 1000? >>I know that in different contexts sometimes 1024 and sometimes 1000 is >>meant for "kilo". Which one is it here? > >according to SI, "kilo" means always 1000, the only exception is if bytes are >meant, where kilo means 1024. So 1 kN should be 1000 N. In a paper about The SI systems states that if a capital K is used, then it's 1024, if not, it's 1000. So when people write 100 kb, it means 100000 bits, although they might think otherwise.
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