Question About Letter

[Zaid]

HI
Here is a link from yahoo hotjobs
Link
Could you please tell me what does the letter K mean next to the Salary amount
Thank you

[penagate]

K for Kilo (thousand).

[si_the_geek]

Thousand.
(unlike computers where it is actually 1024)

[Zaid]

Thank you

[Slaine]

Thousand.
(unlike computers where it is actually 1024)

Kilo (K) = 10^3 = 1000

Kibi (Ki) = 2^10 = 1024

[si_the_geek]

While Kibi is less ambiguous, it seems to never actually be used - your post is the first time I have ever seen it (I had to look it up!)

Most search results seem to be companies, or the definition - very few (if any) real uses of the term.

[penagate]

I use it, not that that counts for anything.

[Slaine]

While Kibi is less ambiguous, it seems to never actually be used - your post is the first time I have ever seen it (I had to look it up!)

Most search results seem to be companies, or the definition - very few (if any) real uses of the term.

Kilo returns equally useless search results.

Although I don't necessarily disagree with you.

[Al42]

Thousand.
(unlike computers where it is actually 1024)

Since my job involves computers, maybe I could convince my boss to pay me in computer Ks.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Since my job involves computers, maybe I could convince my boss to pay me in computer Ks.

Watch it, he might decide to pay you 1000 in binary.

I have never seen Kibi before, and don't find it particularly intuitive (kilobit I assume from the example). Where is this used?

[penagate]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#Computing

[...] the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted new binary prefixes in 1998, formed from the first syllable of the decimal prefix plus 'bi' (pronounced 'bee'). The symbol is the decimal symbol plus 'i'. So now, one kilobyte (1 kB) equals 1000 bytes, whereas one kibibyte (1 KiB) equals 210 = 1024 bytes. Likewise mebi (Mi; 220), gibi (Gi; 230), tebi (Ti; 240), pebi (Pi; 250), and exbi (Ei; 260). Although the IEC standard does not mention them, the sequence can be readily extended to zebi (Zi; 270) and yobi (Yi; 280). The adoption of these prefixes has been very limited.

[Al42]

'Mebi' it'll catch on, but I doubt it.