on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter > signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. > Conversely, > a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For > example, > > MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes)
1024 bytes. Computers operate on base 2. 1MB = 2^10 bytes. Only hard drive manufacturers use base 10, to artificially inflate the size of their drives (false advertising basically). > mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A bit is as small as it gets. A bit is either 1 or 0. mb generally means megabits, which is 1/8 of a megabyte. Matt _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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