Actually, if we want too go into details, according to the international standard for units, there is a big difference in 'M' and 'm'. 'M' means Mega and 'm' means milli. You are probably aware of that Mega is 10 in the power of 3 but milli is 10 in the power of -3. The difference is, like, a million.
On the other hand, millibytes seems just absurd. I mean, 1/1000 of a byte, what is that? So I guess nobody cares about wether they are typing 'M' or 'm'... Sævar - Iceland -----Original Message----- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20. júní 2003 14:27 To: Ian Mantripp Cc: Mike Migurski; MIKE YRABEDRA; PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] Convert KB to MB? Again I say "Ahhh". Are you mixing your bits and bytes then? 1MB =1024KB 1mb=1000kb Although upper and lower case seem to have becoming interchangeable, even though technically they have different meaning. The simple formula is suddenly getting more complicated. On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 04:41 AM, Ian Mantripp wrote: >> Ahhh, but then marketing gets involved and changes the 1024 to 1000 >> and >> ta da, you now have more MegaBytes. 1024 is the right number to use, >> but don't be surprised if it doesn't match with some numbers you might >> compare it to. > > Not necessarily, in data storage 1mb = 1024kb but in data transfer 1mb > = > 1000kb. -- Brent Baisley Systems Architect Landover Associates, Inc. Search & Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
