Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:31, Willie Wonka wrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but;
kb = kilobit
KB = KiloByte
mb = megabit
MB = MegaByte
1 bit * 8 = 1 byte
1 Byte / 8 = 1 bit
That's right, except it's kb or kB (for kilobits and kilobytes respectively),
never KB or Kb. k is "kilo," K is "Karat."
That may be true somewhere but it's not a very strong standard.
aptitude agrees with you but the Firefox downloader does not not do NIST
or Wikipedia or the AECMA
I learned that upper case metric prefixes were used for multiples of
units where lower case letters were used for divisions of units.
Paul Scott
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