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0 pointsadamomada1y ago0 comments

If you look closely, kcal is always written Calorie not calorie. It’s interesting that even in otherwise metric based countries, the joule is completely foreign. It must be what most Americans experience when they see Celsius

RAM is always GiB - it’s how it works. I’d love to see an example of it being mangled though

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NikkiA1y ago

Back about 20 years ago, I actually did see some SFF PCs listing their (chipset-fixed) RAM in terms of powers of 10, it was strange and disconcerting to see numbers like '1.04 GB' (1GiB - 32MB of video ram)

SiempreViernes1y ago

I'm don't know where you are talking about, I've now looked at the four closest food labels I could find and all have been kcal/ kJ, are you in Kenya or something?

eesmith1y ago

I have looked closely. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

> Some authors recommend the spelling Calorie and the symbol Cal (both with a capital C) if the large calorie is meant, to avoid confusion;[8] however, this convention is often ignored.

For example, the US FDA page on calories at https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-facts-label/calories-nutr... has:

> 2,000 calories a day is used as a general guide for nutrition advice, but your calorie needs may be higher or lower depending on your age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity level.

As for 'RAM is always GiB - it’s how it works.' - that's my point.

RAM by convention is in GiB even if the notation uses GB.

The "Crucial Pro 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR5-5600 UDIMM" at https://www.crucial.com/ is actually GiB, because the convention for RAM is to use "GB" to mean "GiB".

Even though that doesn't follow SI prefix conventions.

Just like the predicted currency of 75 years from now uses 99⁶ to mean 99 million, even though the superscript 9 is not currently a suffix meaning "million".

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