Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:59:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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Hi Mike.
>> [however I've never seen 'Kg' instead of 'kg', but 'mB' or 'mb' are >> ugly when compared with 'Mb' and 'MB', not counting that 'b' is bit >> and 'B' is byte ... well ... it's confusing sometimes ...]
> 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.
I remember reading somewhere that the Voyager space probes now communicate information back to earth at the incredibly fast rate of 10 minutes per byte - which my mental maths says is somewhere in the region of 1.6 mB per second - using precicely the unit you decry.
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Have you purloined the emblem of the Scottish National Party ??? Refer to http://www.snp.org.uk/ for details.
Best wishes from Riley.
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