Messages in this thread |  | | From | Allan Sandfeld <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:44:58 +0100 |
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On Saturday 22 December 2001 17:14, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > The only problem is that M = 10^6 plus Mi = 2^20 don't cover the usages ... > > 4Mbit bandwidth is usually 4 * 10^3 * 2^10 bits per second. > 20GB harddrive is usually 20 * 10^6 * 2^10 bytes. > > The confusion is there. It can't be erradicated by adding Mi's and Gi's, > because they don't cover the whole spectrum. > Please, please dont add more confusion.. Fortunatly people how sell harddisk and bandwidth are both very consistent. 4Mbit bandwith IS always 4 x 10^9 bits per second 20GB harddrive IS always 20 x 10^20 bytes.
The confusion starts by saying a Mbit is only 1000 Kbit.. Well it is but the Kbit here is 1000bit/s And a GB is only 1000,000 kB, but these kB is only 1000 bytes.
Dont confuse the matter anymore, I am sure someone does, but they are wrong!
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