[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.