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ph0rque on Feb 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day

Lowercase k stands for kilo; K stands for Kelvin (as long as we're being pedantic).

batista on Feb 17, 2012 [–]

It is uppercase in the comment above.

And a letter can stand for multiple things, from temperatures to chemical elements to whatever.

As long as we're being pedantic, that is.

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