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Date:      Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:11:20 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B network collisions 
Message-ID:  <199808232311.RAA26782@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Aug 1998 15:45:42 -0000." <xzpsoiu5m55.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> 
References:  <xzpsoiu5m55.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>  <199808181036.MAA28563@plab.ku.dk> 

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In message <xzpsoiu5m55.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
: "Vadim Belman" <voland@plab.ku.dk> writes:
: > (~920 Kb/s on a 10 mbps connection).
: 
: *groan*
: 
: "920 Kelvin-bits per second on a 10 millibit per second connection".
: 
: When will people learn to use units and SI prefixes properly?

K == 1024 while k == kilo == 1000.  K == 1024 is a common extention to
the SI prefixes.  Besides, K isn't an SI prefix, but rather a unit of
measure.  After all, m == milli for a prefix, but meter for a suffix.
They are two different name spaces.

One nit that annoys me is that people aren't always careful with kb/s
and kB/s for kilo-bits per second and kilo-bytes per second
respectively.

Warner

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