What's the real name of K? (2K, 4K)

[Fabiano Berlim]

Hi,

Hope some one could awnser me some simple questions.

What's the real name of the measure K? (K from 2K, 4K)

What a image need to have to be a 1K? Need to have one thousand pixels in one side?

Sorry for the english and thanks in advance!!! :biggrin:

 

[Pawel Achtel]

Kilo - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-

1024 pixels measured horizontally.

 

[Simon Dean]

Actually Kilo is 1000, the number 1024 comes from the binary representation.
Kilogram is 1000 grams.
Kilobyte is 1024 bytes, because of the binary math.

 

[Fabiano Berlim]

OWHH!!! Fast!!!

Thanks a lot!!!

 

[Fabiano Berlim]

Why?

Why?

Why kilogram?

I know that you guys from north also use K for money too.

When that definition started?

 

[Martin Weiss]

...and in Australia they use it for kilometers, too.

 

[Fabiano Berlim]

I founded it in wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-

Kilo comes from the Greek χίλιοι ("khilioi"), meaning thousand.

Thanks a lot!!!

 

[Patrick Jennings]

K is potassium. the red one has 4 potassium horizontally

 

[Jerrod Cordell]

K is potassium. the red one has 4 potassium horizontally

Red > Bananas.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Potassium also reacts violently when thrown into water.

I would react violently if someone threw my RED One into water.

 

[D'Arcy Foley-Dawson]

...and in Australia they use it for kilometers, too.

no kilometres is represented by km.... :innocent: