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 | | However, there is widescale resistance to this new terminology and many people prefer to use the SI prefixes in a binary sense, even though this is incorrect. |
 | | The one-letter abbreviations are identical to SI prefixes, except for "K", which is used interchangeably with "k" (in SI, "K" stands for the kelvin, and only "k" stands for 1000). |
 | | This standard, which was approved in 1998, introduced the prefixes kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, tebi-, pebi-, exbi-, to be used in specifying binary multiples of a quantity. |
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