torsdag 24 juni 2004 14:19 skrev elefino:
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? :-)
Irrespective of any definition by nist, I'll stick to the good old Kilo and Bravo company. And I'll just stick to the good old MB = Mega Byte, where Byte refers to Hex base. Even though they're often referred to as octets, which is something quite different. I'll also know, that Mb is simply Mega bits, and that there's no Base 16 involved at all, and shouldn't be unless the mathematician is retarded. Since we're talking about million singletons and not million octets with a hex base.