Re: assistance with disk ][ and modern 1.2M floppies

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>There is a growing suggestion of inventing new terms for the "binary"
>kilobyte and megabyte, to reduce this sort of confusion and misleading
>information.  I believe the suggested terms are "kibibyte" and
>"mebibyte" (short for "kilo-binary-byte" and "mega-binary-byte", as far
>as I can tell).  I'm not sure what is being suggested for the
>abbreviations.

My way of dealing with this is as follows:

1KB = 1024 bytes
1kB = 1000 bytes
1Kb = 1024 bits = 128 bytes
1kb = 1000 bits = 125 bytes

Unfortunately this does not scale to Mega as it is already a capital.

My pet peeve is articles with clock speeds in mHz - if they really were
clocked at that speed I reckon I could outrun them with paper and pencil
(1000 seconds per clock tick).
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia