Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:50:47 +0100 | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | From | Rene Engelhard <> |
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Christian Groessler wrote:
> On 12/21/2001 10:58:30 AM GMT Mike Jagdis wrote: >> >> Mike Eldridge wrote: >> >>> i was going to comment about simply using lowercase equivalents, but >>> then milli already has 'm', although the concept of a millibyte (or even >>> millibit) is absurd. >> >> Why? For instance a millibyte/s might be a hearbeat across a LAN every >> hour or so or it might be a control traffic requirement for a deep space >> probe. You might not have an immediate use for the term but it has a >> specific meaning - and certainly isn't "absurd" (see definition on >> http://www.dict.org). > > So, is it 1/1024 or 1/1000 bytes ? :-)
1/1024. Because we are talking about byte.
Rene
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