Messages in this thread |  | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:42:41 +0100 (MET) |
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"Leonard N. Zubkoff writes" |> |> |> |> Let's face it -- the original fault with KB/MB is in using the same prefixes |> that already had definitions for a different purpose. The scientific community |> has used K for kilo = 1000 and M for mega = 1000000 for quite a long time.
Leonard,
you are slightly incorrect this time... To do my daily nitpicking, it was the prefix "k", not "K" that was (and still is) used for 10^3. Capital K was introduced by computing for 2^10. Unfortunately there is no way to further capitalize a capital M ... Same way we have to distinguish "B" and "b" for transfer rates... Just my $0.00 worth. -- Steffen Grunewald | email steffen@gfz-potsdam.de | fax (+49)-331-8877 520 <A HREF="http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/">GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam</A> Telegrafenberg A17, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany /* Disclaimer : I don't speak for my employers, they don't speak for me */
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