Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:08:05 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help |
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > The unit here is B, which does conflict with the unit bel, but is > > > widely used to mean byte in computer contexts. > > > > Also, the kilobell is highly unlikely to be used ;) > > > > Rik > > Dunno about that, the S/N ratio on slashdot seems to get into the kB's > somedays.
I'm not sure what parallel universe you live in, but I'm pretty damn sure that mine doesn't have 10000 times more signal than noise on slashdot ;)
An S+N/N of one kB is 40 dB...
regards,
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