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

Bjorn Ramqvist brt at g.haggve.se
Thu Nov 21 04:18:50 CST 2002


Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > > That's like using "mb" instead of "MB" when talking datasizes.
> > > Milli-bits vs Megabytes... 1/1000th of a bit vs 1000000 bytes.
> > > :-)
> >
> > 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)

Well, it is... "K" (like in Kilobytes), "M" (in Mega - 1000000), and so
on.
Bits "b" and bytes "B" have nothing in common with this, I think.

/Bjorn



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