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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
>>Sure, in the computer world as well (generally "MB," though).
>
>>Mille is Latin for a thousand. This is what printers go by.
>
>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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