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>I do like the nerdiness in the idea of saying "two megs" instead of "two thousand kays"

But they are not the same!!oneoneone. Unless you are in the dog food prefixes camp. Are you?

2 000 km = 2 Mm?

You're not thinking of the mebi-, kibi-, etc debacle, are you?

Yes. I'm old school, 1K is 1024, 1M is 1024K, 64K is 65536 and I refuse to use kimblebits and such.

I'm with you, but it's a non-issue when it comes to non-computer units, which is what we're discussing here.

Decimal prefixes are standard prefixes for SI units.