Re: Network Throughput

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > > > KB = Kelvin Byte
> > > 
> IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost 
> anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused?

Ok, and what about Mega? Talking about Bytes, Mega is (1024)^2 == (2^20).
Same for Giga.

I find it easier that when talking about Bytes (and nothing but Bytes), to
assume that k=2^10 and M=2^20 and G=2^30 and so forth.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan
 

> 				Miso&Frankie
> -- 
> Nietzche is dead.
>