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
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