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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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In article <5avcmk$68o@dex.trin.cam.ac.uk>,
Tony Finch <fanf@lspace.org> writes:
> Markus Kuhn <kuhn@cs.purdue.edu> wrote:
> 
> > One [suggestion] is to replace the base unit name "kilogram" by the
> > new name "gio" (after the Italian inventor of the mks system).
> 
> What would the symbol be? In the normal course of things it would be G
> but this clashes with giga.

So?  Meter/metre clashes with milli.  What's the problem?
