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My favorite is "5KB". The prefix for kilo- is a lowercase 'k'. Uppercase 'K' is Kelvin. I don't even know how to conceptualize a Kelvin-Byte.



>I don't even know how to conceptualize a Kelvin-Byte.

I can actually see where this unit would be useful; in determining the probability of bit rot. The more kelvins you have, and the more bytes you have, the more likely you are to flip a bit due to random fluctuations. temperature*storage capacity = Kelvin-Bytes.


Once you have that figured out, try to conceptualize Kelvinbyteohms aka Kelvinbytes per Siemens!




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