Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> TREGAN Fabien wrote:
>
>>>BTW - what does "2mo" and "20ko" actually mean?
>>>I can guess the meaning, but I've never seen it before.
>>>And Google didn't find a quick answer for me ...
>>>
>>Binary Digit (aka 'bit') is a number that can have to values (0 or 1)
>>An Octet is 8 bits
>>1ko (kilo-octet) is 1024 bits (not 1000 because computer work with bit and
>>then work with powre of 2, not power of 10)
>>1mo (mega-octet) is 1024 ko
>>
>
> I think that everybody here knows about bits and octets, Fabien :) Just
> that 2Kb is *must* more used than 2Ko.
>
> Moreover, 'm' means 'milli' and there is no indication of this in
> computer science since there is no 'bit fraction' (well, there is, but
> only for information theory and we are not dealing with that).
>
> Mega, thus 2^16 is written as 'M' even if scientifically 'mega' means
> 10^6, so using Mb is somewhat wrong in any sense, even if people are so
> used with it that it doesn't really matter.
Don't you mean 2^20? Because 1,048,576 is closer to 1,000,000 than
65,536.
2^30 is Gb.
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