27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
1:36 p.m.
It's not confusing - or at least it never used to
be. In a computing
context K was always a power of 2 because in that environment that's
what's more convenient,
Not *always*. For example, 10Mbit Ethernet is 10000000 bits/sec, not
10485760 bits/sec. 9600 baud is 9.6 kilobaud, not 9.375 kilobaud.
But communications speeds are the only computer context I can think of
where the decimal meanings are standard (aside of course from storage
makers trying to make their storage sound bigger than it is).
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