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Prefixes for decimal and binary multiples
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	Note: in information technology, especially for measurements of memory capacity in bits or bytes, it used to be common to use the decimal prefixes "kilo" (with symbol "k" or "K"), "mega" ("M"), "giga" ("G"), etc, to mean the closest binary prefixes "kibi", "mebi", etc; this use has been declared unacceptable by major standards bodies such as the NIST and the BIPM.
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-| colspan="2" style="text-align: left"|Note: in information technology, especially for measurements of memory capacity in bits or bytes, it is still common to use the decimal prefixes "kilo" (with symbol "k" or "K"), "mega" ("M"), "giga" ("G"), etc, to mean the closest binary prefixes "kibi", "mebi", etc.  This use is now deprecated by major standards bodies such as the [[NIST]] and the [[BIPM]].
+| colspan="2" style="text-align: left"|Note: in information technology, especially for measurements of memory capacity in bits or bytes, it used to be common to use the decimal prefixes "kilo" (with symbol "k" or "K"), "mega" ("M"), "giga" ("G"), etc, to mean the closest binary prefixes "kibi", "mebi", etc; this use has been declared unacceptable by major standards bodies such as the [[NIST]] and the [[BIPM]].<!-- e.g. https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-chapter-4-two-classes-si-units-and-si-prefixes (Sep 2023) Note: Alternative definitions of the SI prefixes and their symbols are not permitted. For example, it is unacceptable to use kilo (k) to represent 210 = 1024 ... -->
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