On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:45, Alexandr Malusek wrote: [...]
The NIST document uses B as the symbol for byte. I'm not aware of any standard recommending "b" as the symbol for bit but it's quite natural, at least to me :-), to interpret it like that.
I just looked into that link, and we will have to adapt our speach also : Q : How much memory does your PC have ? A : It has one gibibyte of RAM.
Actually, 1 GiB is approximately 1 GB, so you may still use the "oldspeak" if you know its limits.
Never mind that, how do you *say* it? I'd always heard Giga pronounced with two hard Gs, as in "go". Then some American moviemakers(*) popularized a leading soft G, as in Joe. So, Jiga. With a bad french accent, I can just see "Gigi" (zjhee-zjhee) working her way in there. My hard drive has 160 Gigibytes, et la plupart est tres sexy, non? Kevin (*) Those would be callous, know-nothing moviemakers who just happen to have far more money than I'll ever see in my life, but I'm not bitter.... oh no. ;->