24 Jun
2004
24 Jun
'04
12:19
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 15:38, Alexandr Malusek wrote: [...]
Standards define SI (k,M,G,...) and binary (Ki, Mi, Gi, ...) prefixes, see e.g. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html. The problem is that (1) people are not aware of these standards, and (2) people ignore them. The situation will get better when binary prefixes are accepted by general public. Then everybody will understand that 160 GB = 149 GiB.
BTW, 100 mb stands for 100 millibits.
Has anyone ever met a millibit? Information has "sub-atomic" particles? :-) Kewl! Er... that is... I mean........ partially kewl. Kevin