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You understand it, I understand it, everyone understands it: it's just a purely aesthetic choice.

> You understand it, I understand it

That may be, but...

> it's just a purely aesthetic choice.

SI metric prefixes[0] are case-sensitive; "mb" is not the same as "Mb". Not that computing has ever been rigorous on this point, but the point stands.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefi...

>> Like the numbers they combine with, SI units and unit symbols are never shown in italics.

That's so absurdly specific. I love it!

You can get around that by using text-transform, then you can have the correct one in the DOM and the pretty one on your screen!

Is that not what you meant? :D

Apologies! I've been in a lowercase mood recently

go mebibyte or go home :)

Especially since bandwidth is usually measured in bits, and storage in bytes. Units matter!