Re: Units of measure

Actually, if you're going to be THAT anal about it, the "B" for "Byte" should also be capitalized. As in MB, GB, etc. Because lower-case "b" is for "bit," as in a 56kb modem. Oddly enough, though, I thought that even K should be capitalized. Nicholas Widdows wrote in message ... >Actually, to be really pedantic, units start with lower-case letters: >kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, right up to yottabyte. The prefix >_symbols_ from mega- onward (not kilo-) have capital letters: k, M, G, >up to Y. And a measure is written with a space between the magnitude and >the unit: thus 1024 Gbyte, 1024 Pbyte etc.