Talk:KB

Kilobyte is always 2^10, Kilobit is always 2^10.. The use of the word Kilo usually means 1000, but in terms of computers it means nothing because computers never store information in powers of ten, unless streaming data.. I mean its meaningless to refer to a killobyte as 1000 bytes, because computer memory is always addressed in powers of two.. Take a digital electronics course and come back to me on this one. So the english language will have to suffer when it comes to computers.. Drives and CD Rom drives can store bytes in powers of ten (a 140MB drive may actually be 140,000,000 bytes which is really 133.1 Megabytes. A Megabyte is 2^20 bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes. Fast RAM (like that which your computer uses to run applications) always count bytes in powers of two. Flash RAM devices may stream memory, like with tape drives and random access drives, and may measure memory in terms of powers of 10..

The confusion over kilobits and kilobytes is abused by marketing/sales people to mislead consumers into making bad purchasing decisions. I would suspect that the need for the distinction is made more by sellers of computer gear and confused consumers than by hardware/software developers. The mixing of terms for Megabytes could yield disasterous results. Imagine expressing an address to someone as 2 megabytes added to the current address.. Is that 2^20 * 2 or is that 10^6 * 2?

kB, not KB
K is not the abbreviation for kilo, so the encyclopaedia should not falsely claim that it is. This encourages ignorant fools to write that stupid error too. "k" is actually the abbreviation for "kilo". "K" means Kelvin, which is a measure of temperature. Someone please correct this careless error in the article.
 * Where in this article does it say that "K" is the abbreviation for "kilo"? The list items for both "kilobyte" and "kilobit" use "k". &mdash;Gordon P. Hemsley&rarr; &#x2709; 20:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You ever work in computing science?

I echo this plea. My computer is pretty cool, but at 95 K it would give me severe frostibe, B or otherwise... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.134.193.5 (talk) 15:33, 9 November 2009 (UTC)