Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:48:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:47:35 -0500 Received: from fw.aub.dk ([195.24.1.194]:52865 "EHLO Princess") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:47:31 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Allan Sandfeld To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:44:58 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] In-Reply-To: <20011221141847.E15926@redhat.com> <20011222171438.A10233@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20011222171438.A10233@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 22 December 2001 17:14, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > The only problem is that M = 10^6 plus Mi = 2^20 don't cover the usages ... > > 4Mbit bandwidth is usually 4 * 10^3 * 2^10 bits per second. > 20GB harddrive is usually 20 * 10^6 * 2^10 bytes. > > The confusion is there. It can't be erradicated by adding Mi's and Gi's, > because they don't cover the whole spectrum. > Please, please dont add more confusion.. Fortunatly people how sell harddisk and bandwidth are both very consistent. 4Mbit bandwith IS always 4 x 10^9 bits per second 20GB harddrive IS always 20 x 10^20 bytes. The confusion starts by saying a Mbit is only 1000 Kbit.. Well it is but the Kbit here is 1000bit/s And a GB is only 1000,000 kB, but these kB is only 1000 bytes. Dont confuse the matter anymore, I am sure someone does, but they are wrong! regards Allan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/