Re: Network Throughput
At Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:24:49 +0100 (MET) , Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL> wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote:
>>
>> > 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).
>>
>> That's true and this is well defined in the SI.
>> But does that mean, we have to distinguish between mb, Mb, mB and MB?
>I think we have to.
[snip]
>If we know what we are talking about, case sensitive does not matter.
>Better is to define first what you mean.
I was taught, and use: KB == kilobyte, Kb == kilobit (and naturally
the same for mega*). Its standard, AFAIK, but of course the kids of
today... ;-)
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