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

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 15 August 2002, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> 
> No. the ISO decimal rate is signed by Ki and Mi.

Really?? I'm sure I've seen this story the other way around (Ki and Mi
used as binary, not decimal).

> Look at new HDD drives (HDDs tend to use 1000 instead of 1024) they ahve
> 80MiB written on.

I'll have to take a look, then. Hard to believe, though.
 
> So, M is always 1024^2 while K is 1024

Agreed.
 
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