Just to make things a little more confusing...Will there be an American
billion in a kibibit or a British billion ? :-)
G.
Graham Mckenzie
Systems Engineer
Global IT Group (Green Fields & Acquisitions)
Jabil Circuit
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Jimenez [mailto:fjimenez@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:06 PM
To: cisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; zoccav@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: kibibits and mebibits (Was: Re: kbps Mbps.)
<< File: Frank Jimenez.vcf >> It gets even better than
that. There is a proposal out there to standardize the units for binary
multiples.
In other words, since 1 kilobit should really equal 1000
bits (not 1024), the proposal is to have a kibi- prefix.
1 kibibit = 1024 bits (2^10 bits)
1 mebibit = 1048576 bits (2^20 bits)
For more on this, go look at
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Ah, progress...
Frank Jimenez
CompuCom Systems, Inc.
fjimenez@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Vincenzo Zocca <zoccav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 08/03/99 05:20PM
>>>
Assuming prefixes are taken from SI/metric system, the
'kilo' prefix in
example ('K') should be in lower case ('k'). Like in 'km'
(kilometer for USA
and kilometre UK readers) and 'kHz' ('kg' (kilogram) would
be a bad example as
it is a unit itself).
The Mega 'M' should be in upper case, as it is.
Unfortunately, binary units do not seem to fall in the
SI/metric system. Time
(in s) does however.
Following links simultaneously provide clarity and confusion
in this matter:
http://www.hlalapansi.demon.co.uk/Metric/index.html#prefix
http://www.hlalapansi.demon.co.uk/Metric/index.html#binary
Sorry to be pedantic,
Vincenzo
> KBPS and MBPS: kilobytes and megabytes
> Kbps and Mbps: kilobits and megabits
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