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=== Ambiguous standards === The ambiguous usage of the prefixes "kilo ("K" or "k"), "mega" ("M"), and "giga" ("G"), as meaning both powers of 1000 or (in computer contexts) of 1024, has been recorded in popular dictionaries,<ref name="webster" /><ref name="metadict" /><ref name="oxford" /> and even in some obsolete standards, such as [[ANSI/IEEE 1084-1986 standard|ANSI/IEEE 1084-1986]]<ref name="ansi1986" /> and [[ANSI/IEEE 1212-1991 standard|ANSI/IEEE 1212-1991]],<ref name="ieee1992" /> [[IEEE 610.10-1994 standard|IEEE 610.10-1994]],<ref name="ieee1994" /> and [[IEEE 100-2000 standard|IEEE 100-2000]].<ref name="ieee2000" /> Some of these standards specifically limited the binary meaning to multiples of "byte" ("B") or "bit" ("b").
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