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Re: Units in speed

From: Oto BREZINA <otik_at_printflow.eu>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:28:55 +0100

On 2012-03-21 17:50, Stefan Küng wrote:
> On 20.03.2012 22:18, Oto BREZINA wrote:
>> On 2012-03-20 20:52, Stefan Küng wrote:
>>> On 20.03.2012 10:12, Oto BREZINA wrote:
>>>> In TSVN is used kBytes/s unit. This is 1000 or 1024 Bytes/s ? In later
>>>> KiB(ytes)/s should be used, and as it is more common a expect this one
>>>> was meant. IIRC, Ki and Mi are in iso already. If former is used is it
>>>> correct but unxepected.
>>> It's kBytes/s (1024 Bytes).
>> Did you thought to change that to KiB? "more correct" but less recognised
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Specific_units_of_IEC_60027-2_A.2_and_ISO.2FIEC_80000
> Both are correct, but kb is more used and recognized than kib.
> Is there a reason we should change that?
Not big deal - just curiosity. I personaly preffer "right one" = KiB,
but I also feel that it is less recognised. I have sometimes report
sizes or even speed, so checking how others deal with that. I will
translate as KiB.
>
> Stefan
>

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