From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david@dark.x.dtu.dk Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:46:47 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] HTB not that exact Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org > 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/