Euric wrote: >I wonder if the BIPM could ever consider making the bit the SI >base unit for >the amount of data. The binary SI prefixes would then be applied and be in >perfect harmony with the way binary numbers are expressed. Even if the >Base-10 prefixes are applied they would have the same meaning as >they do with other units.
Unlikely. As I said before, bit is not a unit of measure. It's a discrete element. We count bits; we do not measure them. The same is true of bytes. Your 4.7004 bits example is impossible. There can only ever be an integral number of on/off states. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
