• accideath@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I guess it’s for consistency. M, G and T are all capital and n, p or μ aren’t relevant for bits and bytes. Makes sense to also capitalize the k.

      Edit: In case of kbps and Mbps, the capitalization is usually correct though…