Krishna Kambhampaty wrote: I assume Ko and Mo (used in a table) refer to kilobytes and megabytes?
I didn't find the table. However, K would be wrong for kilo, which should be k. If they're talking about file sizes, Ki (for kibi) and Mi (for mebi) would be preferable (see http://metric1.org/binprfx.htm). The o is for octet, which was and possibly still is the almost universal preference over byte in international documents (especially those of the ITU). <Off-topic stuff> However, octet is not simply the French (or international-speak, which would include English) for byte, as the diagramming and bit numbering convention within octets also differs from that used in bytes (with two different conventions for bytes -- IBM and Intel). In a diagram, going from left to right, the bits of an octet are arranged from least significant to most significant and numbered from 1 to 8. For two adjacent octets, the numbering is 1 to 16, and so on. This bit order (i.e., LSB firs) corresponds to the actual order of transmission for data communications for most protocols -- including IP. For bytes, the bits are diagrammed from most significant to least significant and are numbered from 0 to 7 in documents using the IBM notation, but from 7 to 0 in documents using the Intel notation. This bit order (i.e., MSB first) corresponds to the actual order of transmission for IBM data communication protocols (e.g., BSC, SDLC). <End of off-topic stuff> Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
