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  1. Pedantically speaking,
    4 KB is 4 kelvin·bel.
    (Working out which is the associated physical _quantity_, if any,
    is the more interesting part of the exercise, of course.)

    _________
    By the way, the first patent for a telephone was issued just a tad over 150 years ago.
    Thomson's work on absolute temperature is about a quarter of a century older.

    #SI
    #SIPrefixes
    #SIUnits

  2. Pedantically speaking,
    4 KB is 4 kelvin·bel.
    (Working out which is the associated physical _quantity_, if any,
    is the more interesting part of the exercise, of course.)

    _________
    By the way, the first patent for a telephone was issued just a tad over 150 years ago.
    Thomson's work on absolute temperature is about a quarter of a century older.

    #SI
    #SIPrefixes
    #SIUnits

  3. Which leads me onto another question - are the deci- / deca- #SIPrefixes routinely used in any #science or #engineering field?

    Other than decibels, which are kind of weird because they're a logarithmic scale.

  4. Which leads me onto another question - are the deci- / deca- #SIPrefixes routinely used in any #science or #engineering field?

    Other than decibels, which are kind of weird because they're a logarithmic scale.

  5. “pico de gallo” implies the existence of a “mega de gallo”
    #SIprefixes

  6. “pico de gallo” implies the existence of a “mega de gallo”
    #SIprefixes