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- In communications we talk often about throughput in
bits/second, or moving files of some particular size. We use
magnitude prefices for convenience
- kilo
- 1000 x
- mega
- 1000000 x
- giga
-
109 x
- tera
-
1012 x
- There is often confusion as to whether a kilobyte is 1000 or
1024 bytes. When dealing with processor architectures, its
generally 1024. When dealing with communications, its
generally 1000. State assumptions if it is not obvious from
context.
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Daniel Chalmers
2007-02-08