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

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 20 Nov 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)

The way I was taught is to use lower-case letters for basic units and
upper-case letters for derived units.

Peace...  Sridhar