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Synbios:
I take back what I said in the last part. I understand why you guys use 1024 bytes in a kilobyte now, since the REAL SI prefix kilo is for 1000. (kibi is for 1024)
wow we have a messed up system in the US..
at least we don't refer to weight as stones though :)
Quantum:
--- Quote from: Synbios on November 28, 2007, 05:52:46 am ---I take back what I said in the last part. I understand why you guys use 1024 bytes in a kilobyte now, since the REAL SI prefix kilo is for 1000. (kibi is for 1024)
wow we have a messed up system in the US..
at least we don't refer to weight as stones though :)
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Haha, technically speaking we've moved to metric for everything other than measurement of distance (all our road signs and speedometres are still in miles). But yeah, just through habit most people refer to weight of a person in stones. But measurement of most weight is now metric like we can go and get 2 kgs of Potatoes, with notable exceptions of old street markets and milk which is still mainly measured in pints , although often the bottles say 0.568 litres lol.
It's ofcourse worth mentioning that at this point, our pints are bigger than yours, 1 of our pints is about 1.2 of your pints :P
And yeah, I was about to make a post on SI units and stuff and how it's very important in maths and science to have no ambiguity, so we don't end up in a mess :D. But the forum pointed out a new post had been made.
TheHalf™:
It's just understanding kB - kb and recognizing the upper\lower case b and in some instances where the b is always lower case the upper and lower case k...Kb\KB. Anyhoo there's a simple conversion calculator you can use to identify what you may be getting for what your paying for:
Click there---> http://www.testmy.net/tools/convert.php
And here would be my Kb\KB or kb\KB: 15Mbps\2Mbps (15,000,000\2,000,000) = 1831.05MB\244.14MB
TheHalf™
Quantum:
--- Quote from: TheHalf™ on November 28, 2007, 11:16:34 am ---It's just understanding kB - kb and recognizing the upper\lower case b and in some instances where the b is always lower case the upper and lower case k...Kb\KB. Anyhoo there's a simple conversion calculator you can use to identify what you may be getting for what your paying for:
Click there---> http://www.testmy.net/tools/convert.php
And here would be my Kb\KB or kb\KB: 15Mbps\2Mbps (15,000,000\2,000,000) = 1831.05MB\244.14MB
TheHalf™
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Somehow I don't think 15Mbps = 1831.05 MBps :P :P
TheHalf™:
Perhaps I made a typo (hope not):
15000000 Kbps
15000000 Kbps is 1831054.69 kB/s
Or 15000 Mbps ::: 1831.05 MB/sec
TheHalf™
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