Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2001, 22:15 |
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Andrew Chaney wrote>
>on 30/11/01 3:40, Andreas Johansson (and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM) wrote:
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> > "B" for byte, possibly to differentiate from "b" for bit.
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>That's how I've always used it.
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>Mb megabit
>MB megabyte
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>likewise,
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>kb kilobit
>kB kilobyte (usually shortened to just k or K)
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>maybe I'm just irregularly regular?
No you're regularly irregular. You use it the way I was taught is the
correct one, but the point was that seeing how other units are named "B" for
byte is somewhat odd.
Andreas
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