Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help

[Remco Post]

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > > > The unit here is B, which does conflict with the unit bel, but is
> > > > widely used to mean byte in computer contexts.
> > >
> > > Also, the kilobell is highly unlikely to be used ;)
> > >
> > > Rik
> >
> > Dunno about that, the S/N ratio on slashdot seems to get into the kB's
> > somedays.
> 
> I'm not sure what parallel universe you live in, but I'm
> pretty damn sure that mine doesn't have 10000 times more
> signal than noise on slashdot ;)
> 
> An S+N/N of one kB is 40 dB...
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik
> -- 

changing the d to a k doesn't do anything for the  behaviour Bell scale, it's 
just scaling... :) so 1 kB = 10000 dB...

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