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From: david@dark.x.dtu.dk
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] HTB not that exact
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:46:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-100772564624007@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-100766696815760@msgid-missing>

> obviously ;-) When calculating, I did remember that one megabit is not
> 1000000 bits, but forgot about the byte. Thanks for bringing that into
> my mind again.

One megabit IS actually 10^6 bit - take a look at:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

What you are thinking about is one mebibit, which is 2^20 bit, take a
look at the boot message of a recent kernel and see those prefix'es
used for ide disk cache sice.

- David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-06 19:28 [LARTC] HTB not that exact Stefan Rompf
2001-12-06 19:48 ` bert hubert
2001-12-06 20:33 ` Daniel Ryczek
2001-12-06 21:35 ` Stefan Rompf
2001-12-07 11:46 ` david [this message]
2001-12-07 16:57 ` Sami Farin
2001-12-08  8:51 ` Martin Devera
2001-12-08 11:52 ` bert hubert
2001-12-08 11:53 ` bert hubert
2001-12-08 15:18 ` devik

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