This is all very well but sometimes when people write 500 they really
mean 512, so where does that leave you ?8-)
Marc
s vermill wrote:
Here's a perfectly illustrative example of how common it is to jumble all
this terminology up...
I often use a download test site at PC Pitstop:
http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp
I ran a quick download test that transferred a 500 KB block of text to my
machine. It took 2.744 seconds to complete. Thus, the result was returned
as 1458 Kb/s. Here's the math:
(assuming decimal)
500 * 1000 * 8 = 4,000,000 bits / 2.77 seconds = ~1,458,000 bits/sec =
~1458
decimal kbits/sec or ~1423 binary Kbits/sec
Now...
(assuming binary)
500 * 1024 * 8 = 4,096,000 bits / 2.77 seconds = ~1,478,000 bits/sec =
~1478
decimal kbits/sec or ~1443 binary Kbits/sec
So, in spite of the fact that they are using the binary upper-case K
throughout, they are obviously meaning the decimal lower-case k, which
makes sense given that throughput is expressed that way.
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