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

[Lionel Peterson]

--- 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

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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