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by saraid216 4616 days ago
Is there a special reason the 'k' is lowercase?
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valleyer 4616 days ago
Well, M for mega is capitalized since m is already used by milli. And all of the SI prefixes larger than mega are also capital, I guess to denote that they're large...

All of the SI prefixes k and below are lowercase.

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