Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p.
From: mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} (mirabilos@netcologne.de)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2001 - 12:43:41 EST
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> So in general your best bet is to see 1Kb/s as 1.000 bits per second
and
> 1Mb/s as 1000Kb/s or 1.000.000b/s. As most technologies will stick to
> that. Though off course through the ages a lot of things have been
altered
> it and therefor have added to the confusion.
I'd rather think of 1 kpbs than 1 Kbps...
K is Kelvin, and nothing else (IIRC). K is no prefix.
My proposal: humans should start using sedecimal as
primary numbering system. (And forget about octal
as fast as possible - it is referred way too often in UNIX!)
Greetings from snowful Bonn (Rhein)
-mirabilos
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