Dear Charlie, On 27.11.2014 03:27, Charlie Zender wrote: > > After some back and forth, Steve Emmerson of Unidata kindly added > added support for "octet" and "byte" in UDUnits 2.2.16, released > in June 2014 (same release that introduced "molecule"). > Both "byte" and "octet" are convertible with "bit": > > zender@roulee:~$ udunits2 > You have: kilobytes > You want: bytes > 1 kilobytes = 1000 bytes > x/bytes = 1000*(x/kilobytes) > You have: bytes > You want: bits > 1 bytes = 8 bits > x/bits = 8*(x/bytes) > > With these additions, instruments can archive data acquisition and > transmission rates, storage capacities, etc. with commonsense, > UDUnits-compatible units. > --> I'm not very familiar with UDUNITS but is there also a "kilobyte" which is 1024 bytes, the/another common understanding of "kilo" in the IT world ? Which then also would mean that "mega" is not 1e6 but rather 1024x1024, etc ?
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