[altq 1073] FW: FW: [altq 1068] Re: Accuracy of atobps(const char*)

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

> http://faq.mrtg.org/FAQ024.html
> http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/q/quantifiers.html
>
> and, officially, although noone uses this,
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
>
> > >
> > > 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
>
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