Bob on 24 Feb 2006 04:05:46 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Is my 'bandwidth' math right?

Quoth Toby DiPasquale, on 02/23/06 20:01: 
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:24:36PM -0500, Jeff McAdams wrote:

No, hard drives are frequently quoted in powers of 10...but that's hard
drive vendors being dumb.


I'm sure they'd tell you that they're selling more hard drives.


Networks are basically *never* quoted in powers of 10.  So Marc was
correct in the 1024 * 1024.



I'm sorry, but that's just not the case. When network devices say
"billion", they are not referring to 2^30, they are referring to 10^9.

  ^^^^^^^^^

There you go, using _another_ ambiguous unit, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
Not everyone uses short scale, as I see you meant.

-Bob

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