Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:21:52 +0100 | | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p. |
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:43:41PM -0000, mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} wrote: > > 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.
Some time ago, k was 1000 and K was 1024, b was bits and B was bytes ... but then came the mega and giga, and you can't uppercase those ...
> > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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