[altq 1069] Re: Accuracy of atobps(const char*)

["Sankaran Narayanan" <sankaran@cs.columbia.edu>]

well i am not sure whether there are standards, but i know that
in the memory community, 1Kb is indeed 2^20, whereas in the
data communication world it has been only 1000...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-altq@csl.sony.co.jp [mailto:owner-altq@csl.sony.co.jp]On
> Behalf Of Nicolas Christin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 5:48 PM
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> Subject: [altq 1068] Re: Accuracy of atobps(const char*)
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>
> Sankaran Narayanan wrote:
> >
> > well, Kbps is kilo bits per second...the general convention is 1000 when
> > bits are involved, and 1024 (2^10) when bytes are involved...
>
> 	I guess that was kind of *the* question here. I have read 1
> Kb = 1000 b
> in some papers/textbooks and 1 Kb = 2^20 b from some other sources. Is
> there an actual, formal, IEEE-standardized (or whatever) convention or
> is it just common practice? It does not make that much of a difference
> at Kbps rates, but at Gbps, 2^30 is sufficiently different from 1
> billion that one can actually experience some difference in the
> transmission rates...
>
> 	Cheers,
> 	--Nick