[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Docs fixes

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Thu Aug 15 19:49:06 CEST 2002


On Thursday, 15 August 2002, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 17:05, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > with Bit vs bit I am not entirely sure.
> >
> > IMHO it should always be lowercase (bit). Same goes for 'byte', too.
> IMHO it's kB -> kiloByte, but kb -> kilobit...

Of course 'B' is for bytes and 'b' is for bits. But please, don't get me
started with that old flamewar about prefixes. KB for kilobytes
(binary, ==1024), kB for kilobytes (decimal, ==1000). With megabytes
we have only MB, meaning one or the other.
 
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