Module Name: src
Committed By: jruoho
Date: Sat Aug 6 11:07:18 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: orders.7
Log Message:
Note also common bit rates.
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diff -u src/share/man/man7/orders.7:1.5 src/share/man/man7/orders.7:1.6
--- src/share/man/man7/orders.7:1.5 Tue Dec 14 13:32:14 2010
+++ src/share/man/man7/orders.7 Sat Aug 6 11:07:18 2011
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: orders.7,v 1.5 2010/12/14 13:32:14 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: orders.7,v 1.6 2011/08/06 11:07:18 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 14, 2010
+.Dd August 6, 2011
.Dt ORDERS 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -48,6 +48,22 @@
.It Yottabyte Ta YB Ta 2^80 Ta 10^24
.El
.Pp
+The following table lists common bit rates as a power of ten.
+.Bl -column -offset 2n \
+"Megabit per second" "Prefix" "Bit per second" "Byte per second"
+.It Sy Name Ta Sy Prefix Ta Sy Bit per second Ta Sy Byte per second
+.It Bit per second Ta bit/s Ta 1 Ta 0.125
+.It Byte per second Ta B/s Ta 8 Ta 1
+.It Kilobit per second Ta kbit/s Ta 10^3 Ta 125
+.It Kilobyte per second Ta kB/s Ta 8 * 10^3 Ta 1000
+.It Megabit per second Ta Mbit/s Ta 10^6 Ta 125000
+.It Megabyte per second Ta MB/s Ta 8 * 10^6 Ta 1000000
+.It Gigabit per second Ta Gbit/s Ta 10^9 Ta 125000000
+.It Gigabyte per second Ta GB/s Ta 8 * 10^9 Ta 1000000000
+.It Terabit per second Ta Tbit/s Ta 10^12 Ta 125000000000
+.It Terabyte per second Ta TB/s Ta 8 * 10^12 Ta 1000000000000
+.El
+.Pp
The following table lists common orders of magnitude as a power of ten.
.Bl -column -offset 2n \
"Septillionth" "Order" "Prefix" "Symbol" "Decimal"
