On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:14:17PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
I always thought 10^6 was Mib/MiB and 2^10 was Mb/MB to keep the older manuals and papers consistent, but that doesn't seem to match the wikipedia... Is the wikipedia correct?
Yes: http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html