[sebastianavina]

k is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.

[yen223]

Unless you're talking about kilobytes, in which case k = 1024.

Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte.

Standards are hard. It's not just the Americans' fault

[killface]

blame the brits, not the americans.

[psykovsky]

Can we just blame one person instead of an entire country?

[nkozyra]

Blame Todd. Todd did this to us.

[allard]

Blame the accountants. We're engineers et al. We use SI.

[jeroen]

K, not k.

[tempestn]

Actually, he's right; the abbreviation for kilo (thousand) is lower-case k. The abbreviation for mega (million) is upper case M. (Lower case m is milli (thousandth).)