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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/08/06 02:47
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:05:06 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) Gave
us:
>In article <1136406482.194805.83500@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>NYC XYZ <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>> In the industrial world "M" is one million. It is the abbreviation
>>> for Mega, not mille. mill is a small m and stands for one thousandth.
>>> k stands for kilo and is one thousand.
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>>Sure, in the computer world as well (generally "MB," though).
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>>Mille is Latin for a thousand. This is what printers go by.
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>And in the computer world the differences between M and m and B and
>b are quite large. 100mb is drastically smaller than 100MB - IOW
>100 milli-bits. The only inconsistancy is k for 1000 and K for
>1024. [or do I have those two reversed?]
>
>Bill
That is not correct at all.
In computerese, it is Megabits and Megabytes, there are no
millibits. A millimeter is one thousandth of a meter. What is one
thousandth of a bit?
So, the symbolic appearance is 100Mb and 100MB respectively.
BOTH are MEGA. The only difference is bits and Bytes.
As far as kilo goes , it is NEVER a large K for either
representation.
k means kilo or 1000.
kb means kilobit or 1000 bits
kB means kiloBytes or 1024 bytes
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