On Saturday 19 January 2008 17:58, Bill Potts wrote: > (B, for byte, seems to have been established and adopted, although I'm not > sure octet has disappeared yet.)
I've seen "o" in French (with prefixes, like "Mo"), and "B" conflicts with "B" for bel; but the bel is never used with prefixes >1, AFAIK, while there's no way to make a decibyte. Then there's the shannon, which is equal to the bit but measures a different quantity, information as distinct from information capacity. Fractions of a shannon are possible; fractions of a bit are not. Pierre
