On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > How many grams in a kilogram ? How many meters in a kilometer ? How many > joule in a kilojoule ? ... How many bytes in a kilobyte ? Oh wait... How many 'u's in the word "colour"? Oh, wait - it depends on context, doesn't it? kB is 1024 bytes. The fact that "k" means something else in other contexts is simply irrelevant. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html