[flow-tools] 1 Mb = 1000000 bytes?! ;-)

Mark Boolootian booloo@cats.ucsc.edu
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:35:41 -0700


> This is only for bits not for bytes! KByte is 1024 bytes,
> 64kbps is 64000 bps

I think the important thing to remember here is that these prefixes
have well-defined meaning:

  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html

So things like KBytes and Kbits (or kbits) should generally have 
unambiguous values.  Unfortunately, conventional usage has corrupted
the meaning of these prefixes and created a lot of confusion.