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@kfury And of course MB is so capitalized for the late Dr. Megan Bytes.
@SimonCHulse @schlaeps @kfury They are trying to change these to KiB, MiB…https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
@obviousdwest @SimonCHulse @schlaeps @kfury I suspect they’re too ingrained in general consciousness to change them now.
@SimonCHulse @obviousdwest @schlaeps @kfury yeah... Have you asked Google, or DuckDuckGo how many megabytes are in a gigabyte recently?
It's one of those pub quiz answers I've had blazing rows with the quiz master about 
@Phil_Tanner @SimonCHulse @obviousdwest @schlaeps @kfury oh, how interesting. I hadn’t.
@SimonCHulse @schlaeps @kfury
…unless it's a hard drive, which still cling to 1,000, 1,000,000, etc. because it makes the drive appear larger than it is.
@kfury I shouldn't have to know whether a unit was derived from someone's name!
@kfury So why aren't they writing the word as 'deciBel'? 
@Gte only indirectly. It’s actually related to the attenuation of a signal by a certain length of telephone wire defined by the Bell Telephone Company.
@kfury m = milli, M = mega, so I never understood why kWh has a lower case k...
@kfury The most definitive guide I know of is chapter 5 of the SI Brochure: https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure
Lots of people need to read this.
mHz is possible (millihertz) but very unusual, it'd indicate something cycling about once every quarter hour. MHz (megahertz) is much more common for things cycling every millionth of a second.
@kfury And the b in DB is for Brown as these were the initials of the tractor manufacturer David Brown who made Aston Martins
@kfury now you too can get annoyed at “k” (kilo) and “K” (Kelvin) being misused a lot.
now explain pH to me
Gus Posey @kfury Pretty much the most informative post I've ever seen.
@kfury To be fair, Hertz and Watts being capitalized are indicators that they might have been derived from names of scientists.
In contrast, you never hear of sound being measured in Bels, only decibels, which has practically become a unit of its own. The only inkling you get is when you see decibels written as dB - the capitalization of B indicating that 'Bel' must be derived from the name of some one relevant...
I guess what I'm saying is, this one is on language rather than people.
Who is RADAR named after?
@kfury this would only make sense if also capitalized when not abbreviated, but decibel apparently is not
@kfury millihertz?
@kfury I did not know this rule
@kfury I was today years old...
@kfury omg, I’m a tech author and I never realised this!! I always had to look them up. Until now 
@kfury does that mean there’s, like, a kilobel too
@kfury and the almighty V
@kfury I was like, aren't all SI & their derived units capitalised and no .. no of course they're not (m, s, etc.) and indeed the capitalised ones are named after a person. So TIL Volts, Amps and Ohms are all from names, too.
