Messages in this thread | | | From | "mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}" <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p. | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:43:41 -0000 |
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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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