Or the short answer: mo is French for mb, ko is French for kb :-)
tomK, a real Belgian ----- Original Message ----- From: "TREGAN Fabien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: RE: [how-to] Contribute with my own tutorial > >BTW - what does "2mo" and "20ko" actually mean? > >I can guess the meaning, but I've never seen it before. > >And Google didn't find a quick answer for me ... > > Binary Digit (aka 'bit') is a number that can have to values (0 or 1) > An Octet is 8 bits > 1ko (kilo-octet) is 1024 bits (not 1000 because computer work with bit and > then work with powre of 2, not power of 10) > 1mo (mega-octet) is 1024 ko > > if your .java file is encoded in ascii, 1 octet = 1 char (space en > cariage-return count as 1 char :) ) > > So you can gues that finding a bug hidden in 20ko of code is 100 times > shorted than finding it in 2mo of code. > > > >All articles on cocooncenter are written in xdoc (with some additions to > fit the needs of my pages). So, if you wrote your tutorial in xdoc, it would > be easy to publish. > > Since now, all my docs have been written in .doc (ms word), but i'll try to > read the docs about how to write xdocs :) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
