[ZBX-5764] Kilo prefix must be a lower case k Created: 2012 Oct 29  Updated: 2019 Jan 31

Status: Open
Project: ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
Component/s: Frontend (F)
Affects Version/s: 1.8.15, 2.0.3
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Incident report Priority: Trivial
Reporter: Volker Fröhlich Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 8
Labels: iso, prefixes, units
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Issue Links:
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is duplicated by ZBX-10484 Zabbix item unit prefix for "kilo" do... Closed

 Description   

SI prefix Kilo must be symbolized by a lower case k – not an upper case.



 Comments   
Comment by Alexei Vladishev [ 2012 Nov 07 ]

Related to ZBX-4646.

Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Feb 02 ]

It may be that upper case "K" is actually more appropriate. Quoting Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte :

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as 1000 (10^3); therefore one kilobyte is 1000 bytes. The unit symbol for the kilobyte is kB. In some fields of information technology kilobyte has traditionally also been used to denote 1024 (2^10) bytes, which arises from binary exponentiation common to digital circuitry. In this context the unit symbol K or KB has been common.

According to ZBX-4390, K=1024 at least in some parts of Zabbix, so we may actually leave it as is. ZBXNEXT-954 is also related. In any case, this issue should be solved in conjuction with ZBX-4390 and ZBXNEXT-954, so we may or may not wish to link this as a duplicate of both of them.

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