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Old Mar 3, 2006 | 8:34 am
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Originally Posted by bp888
OK, so the next 'Duh' questions are: why are they called 1P and 2P? And why 1K not 100K when K usually represents Kilo which is 1000, i.e. 1 Kg = 1000 g.
  1. 1st level Premier and 2nd level Premier.
  2. Because they only allocate 2 characters in their database. (That's why UGS is coded as GS.)
  3. but 1KB = 1024 bytes!
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