Timeline of binary prefixes: Difference between revisions

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2020s: rm now-pointless historical note "but so far they have not been adopted", since we now state when they *were* adopted
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1995: Cited source indicates that the IUPAC proposed exactly four new prefixes with the symbols "kb", "Mb", "Gb", and "Tb", NOT "Ki", "Mi", "Gi", and "Ti"
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=== 1995 ===
* August: The [[International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry]]'s Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols proposed new prefixes {{brown|kibi}} (symbolfrom {{brown|Ki}}kilobinary), {{brown|mebi}}, ({{brown|Migibi}}), and {{brown|gibitebi}} (for powers of 1024; with the symbols of {{brown|Gikb}}) and, {{brown|tebiMb}}, ({{brown|TiGb}}), etc.and for powers of 1024{{brown|Tb}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=IUCr 1995 Report - IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols (IDCNS)|url=http://ww1.iucr.org/iucr-top/cexec/rep95/idcns.htm|website=International Union of Crystallography}}</ref>
 
=== 1996 ===