Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:27:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r363106 - head/share/man/man7 Message-ID: <202007111827.06BIR5pY054454@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: carlavilla (doc committer) Date: Sat Jul 11 18:27:05 2020 New Revision: 363106 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363106 Log: Add orders man page PR: 239020 Submitted by: gbe@ Approved by: imp@ Obtained from: NetBSD MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24293 Added: head/share/man/man7/orders.7 (contents, props changed) Modified: head/share/man/man7/Makefile Modified: head/share/man/man7/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man7/Makefile Sat Jul 11 18:24:16 2020 (r363105) +++ head/share/man/man7/Makefile Sat Jul 11 18:27:05 2020 (r363106) @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ MAN= arch.7 \ intro.7 \ maclabel.7 \ operator.7 \ + orders.7 \ ports.7 \ release.7 \ sdoc.7 \ Added: head/share/man/man7/orders.7 ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/share/man/man7/orders.7 Sat Jul 11 18:27:05 2020 (r363106) @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: orders.7,v 1.6 2011/08/06 11:07:18 jruoho Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation +.\" by Jukka Ruohonen. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd August 6, 2011 +.Dt ORDERS 7 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm orders +.Nd orders of magnitude +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The following table lists common multiples of bytes. +.Bl -column -offset 2n \ +"Kilobyte" "Prefix" "Power of 2" "Power of 10" +.It Sy Name Ta Sy Prefix Ta Sy Power of 2 Ta Sy Power of 10 +.It Kilobyte Ta kB Ta 2^10 Ta 10^3 +.It Megabyte Ta MB Ta 2^20 Ta 10^6 +.It Gigabyte Ta GB Ta 2^30 Ta 10^9 +.It Terabyte Ta TB Ta 2^40 Ta 10^12 +.It Petabyte Ta PB Ta 2^50 Ta 10^15 +.It Exabyte Ta EB Ta 2^60 Ta 10^18 +.It Zettabyte Ta ZB Ta 2^70 Ta 10^21 +.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" +.It Sy Name Ta Sy Order Ta Sy Prefix Ta Sy Symbol Ta Sy Decimal +.It Septillionth Ta 10^-24 Ta yocto Ta y Ta 0.000000000000000000000001 +.It Sextillionth Ta 10^-21 Ta zepto Ta z Ta 0.000000000000000000001 +.It Quintillionth Ta 10^-18 Ta atto Ta a Ta 0.000000000000000001 +.It Quadrillionth Ta 10^-15 Ta femto Ta f Ta 0.000000000000001 +.It Trillionth Ta 10^-12 Ta pico Ta p Ta 0.000000000001 +.It Billionth Ta 10^-9 Ta nano Ta n Ta 0.000000001 +.It Millionth Ta 10^-6 Ta micro Ta mu Ta 0.000001 +.It Thousandth Ta 10^-3 Ta milli Ta m Ta 0.001 +.It Hundredth Ta 10^-2 Ta centi Ta c Ta 0.01 +.It Tenth Ta 10^-1 Ta deci Ta d Ta 0.1 +.It One Ta 10^0 Ta - Ta - Ta 1 +.It Ten Ta 10^1 Ta deca Ta da Ta 10 +.It Hundred Ta 10^2 Ta hecto Ta h Ta 100 +.It Thousand Ta 10^3 Ta kilo Ta k Ta 1000 +.It Million Ta 10^6 Ta mega Ta M Ta 1000000 +.It Billion Ta 10^9 Ta giga Ta G Ta 1000000000 +.It Trillion Ta 10^12 Ta tera Ta T Ta 1000000000000 +.It Quadrillion Ta 10^15 Ta peta Ta P Ta 1000000000000000 +.It Quintillion Ta 10^18 Ta exa Ta E Ta 1000000000000000000 +.It Sextillion Ta 10^21 Ta zetta Ta Z Ta 1000000000000000000000 +.It Septillion Ta 10^24 Ta yotta Ta Y Ta 1000000000000000000000000 +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr units 1 , +.Xr number 6 +.Sh STANDARDS +There have been various attempts to standardize the set of binary prefixes. +Organizations such as International Electrotechnical Commission +.Pq Tn IEC +have proposed new prefixes such as +.Dq kibi , +.Dq mebi , +.Dq gibi , +and +.Dq yobi , +but the adoption has been slow at best. +.Sh AUTHORS +This manual page was written by +.An Jukka Ruohonen Aq Mt jruoho@netbsd.org .
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