Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | From | Christian Groessler <> | Date | 21 Dec 2001 12:44:37 +0100 |
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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 ? :-)
regards, chris
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