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Kilo Class is a type of naval Submarine made in Russia. kilo- (symbol: k) is a Prefix in the SI system denoting 103 or 1000. For example: Officially adopted in 1795 (though in common use before that), it comes from the Greek χίλιοι ("khilioi"), meaning ''thousand''. "Kilo" is often used by itself as an abbreviation for "kilogram". Also, technical people often use the term "k", pronounced like the letter, to refer to a thousand of something, especially units of money or population. On the other hand, the Kilometre is sometimes informally abbreviated to "k"; in this context it is widely used in the United States in reference to Running races (for example, a "10k"). "Click" or "klick" can also be heard in informal usage, especially in the U.S. military. USE IN COMPUTING In Computing , kilo does not always exactly denote 1000 but is sometimes equal to 1024 (210), most often when discussing Storage . For example, a Kilobyte is frequently 1024 Byte s, and not 1000 bytes as it should be. A common convention is to use ''k'' for 1000 and ''K'' for 1024, but this is not universally recognised and cannot be relied upon or extended to the higher prefixes. The Binary Prefix Kibi - (symbol Ki) for 1024 has since been introduced to dispel the ambiguity, but has not gained much popularity yet. Hard disk manufacturers use the normal decimal prefixes listed above instead of the binary prefixes that are customary in Computer Memory , which some claim is an intentionally misleading overstatement of capacity. This effect is stronger as the capacity grows. In the case of a kilobyte the difference is only 2.4%, but for a terabyte the difference is about 10%. See Binary Prefix for more details. |
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