grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com Fri Sep 22 12:31:22 PDT 2017

It was shy of 166KiB in proper data storage context

Proper ? Please explain.

unfit context

Please explain why.

"K" isn't valid

You are (((correct))). 170kB is most (((proper))).

prefix

The first letter of a word is not a prefix, modanon. Kilo is the prefix.

lern2units

Learn to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. Kilo is a word. Byte is a word. Kilobyte is an endocentric or copulative compound word. Compound words are abbreviated as initialisms. KB is thus the most suitable abbreviation.

punkanons

Here's some news: To address this confusion, a new set of binary prefixes have been introduced which are based on powers of 2. In that system, 1024 bytes are called a kibibyte or 1 KiB."" A new set of binary prefixes...sounds familiar.