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KB or kB
editIt is curious that the article opens with mentioning the recommended "kB" for kilobyte, but shows "KB" later on without mentioning the 'conflict'. It is correct that "KB" appears, e.g. in Windows, though lower case 'k' is the standard way of representing "kilo", as in "kg" and "km". The article does not even suggest that a line of reasoning for the upper case K might be that a kilobyte is actually larger than 1000 bits... I would not go along with that but it's a not entirely illogical thought.
Kilobyte = kB and kilobit is kb.
Similarly, MB = megabyte and Mb - megabit. Dori1951 (talk) 10:16, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
According to Metric prefix, the official abbreviation for the kilo- prefix is "k". That said, some operating systems such as Windows (I just checked the file explorer in Windows 11) so use "KB". I don't know that it's too important, since "K" is not assigned to any metric prefix so there can be no confusion as to what "KB" means.I should have read the article before posting. "kB" is for the traditional metric prefix "kilo", meaning 1000 bytes. "KB" refers to 1024, or 210, bytes. Both definitions are referred to as "kilobytes". - ZLEA T\C 19:48, 22 November 2024 (UTC)- The symbol KB does not represent 1000 bytes, so it is not a kilobyte. Is this what you mean? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 21:22, 22 November 2024 (UTC)