Re: Network Throughput
Perhaps we should close this discussion. I found a page about SI
prescriptions at:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
but I have never read any document using that convention. It says:
1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 2^20 B (=byte)
Bit is always written out.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 garyjones@linuxfreemail.com wrote:
> 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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