Messages in this thread | | | From | Remco Post <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:48:34 +0100 |
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> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > The unit here is B, which does conflict with the unit bel, but is > > > > widely used to mean byte in computer contexts. > > > > > > Also, the kilobell is highly unlikely to be used ;) > > > > > > Rik > > > > Dunno about that, the S/N ratio on slashdot seems to get into the kB's > > somedays. > > I'm not sure what parallel universe you live in, but I'm > pretty damn sure that mine doesn't have 10000 times more > signal than noise on slashdot ;) > > An S+N/N of one kB is 40 dB... > > regards, > > Rik > --
changing the d to a k doesn't do anything for the behaviour Bell scale, it's just scaling... :) so 1 kB = 10000 dB...
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