[94313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Wed Jan 17 21:20:41 2007
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:09:26 -0600
From: "Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org>
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:35:25PM +0000, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> Oh I should be clear too. We use SI powers of 10, just like for
> bandwidth, not powers of two like for storage. We quote in Megabytes
> because caps are usually in gigabytes, so it's more clear for users.
IEC 60027-2 prefixes eliminate the ambiguity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
Basically, to make base-2, replace letters 3 and 4 of the prefix with
"bi" for binary.
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