[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Docs fixes

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Thu Aug 15 20:11:49 CEST 2002


Hi,

> > >
> > > IMHO it should always be lowercase (bit). Same goes for 'byte', too.
> > IMHO it's kB -> kiloByte, but kb -> kilobit...
> 
> Of course 'B' is for bytes and 'b' is for bits. But please, don't get me
> started with that old flamewar about prefixes. KB for kilobytes
> (binary, ==1024), kB for kilobytes (decimal, ==1000). With megabytes
> we have only MB, meaning one or the other.

No. the ISO decimal rate is signed by Ki and Mi.
Look at new HDD drives (HDDs tend to use 1000 instead of 1024) they ahve
80MiB written on.

So, M is always 1024^2 while K is 1024


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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