[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 20 21:08:20 CST 2002


--- Chris Hedemark <chris at yonderway.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 07:07 AM, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
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> > That's like using "mb" instead of "MB" when talking datasizes.
> > Milli-bits vs Megabytes... 1/1000th of a bit vs 1000000 bytes.
> > :-)
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> Yeah the notation I've always understood for "correct" is little "b" 
> for "bits" and big "B" for "bytes".

I thought it was little letter for values less than one, capital letter
for values grater than 1 of the base unit (i.e. millimeter = mm,
kilometer = KM - all relative to a meter)


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Lionel

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