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| Thread ID: 80343 | 2007-06-19 22:18:00 | I Don't DO Metric...Help A Little | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 560705 | 2007-06-19 22:18:00 | OK . . after Kbits, which I assume is thousands of bits, the next step is Mbits . . and is that Megabits or Milibits Maxibits or Minibits? And the Mbits is (what?) millions or ten-thousands of bits? I want the King's standards reinstalled . :rolleyes: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 560706 | 2007-06-19 22:40:00 | OK . . after Kbits, which I assume is thousands of bits, the next step is Mbits . . and is that Megabits or Milibits Maxibits or Minibits? And the Mbits is (what?) millions or ten-thousands of bits? I want the King's standards reinstalled . :rolleyes: Kilo is thousands Mega is Millions Giga is billions (I think) Tera, Peta then Zeta in order of scale probably check Wki for the amounts of those to be sure . |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 560707 | 2007-06-19 23:26:00 | The trick being to remember kilo bits is 1000, kilo bytes 1024 & so on . Apart from the exceptions, like HDD manufacturers apparently mean 320GB as 320 000 000 000 not 343 597 383 680 . |
mmmork (6822) | ||
| 560708 | 2007-06-20 00:14:00 | 1 Byte consists of 8 bits of data. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 560709 | 2007-06-20 00:25:00 | Hi Joe. We have only used the Metric system for about 30 years. Re your:OK..after Kbits, which I assume is thousands of bits, the next step is Mbits..and is that Megabits or Milibits Maxibits or Minibits? And the Mbits is (what?) millions or ten-thousands of bits? I should imagine that most people would not have a clue how to answer your query. I was interested to read a US of A woodworkers' book recently and find that although the authors were using the old Imperial measurements as a base, they had bastardised it by creating decimalisation... such as three inches and seven-tenths of an inch. 3 7/10". Weird. You'll like Metric when it eventually arrives. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 560710 | 2007-06-20 00:40:00 | 1 Byte consists of 8 bits of data. Well yes but... This is the best one-page explanation I could find to clarifywhat i was getting at (www.t1shopper.com) |
mmmork (6822) | ||
| 560711 | 2007-06-20 00:41:00 | Well yes but... This is the best one-page explanation I could find to clarifywhat i was getting at (www.t1shopper.com) :thumbs: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 560712 | 2007-06-20 00:54:00 | SurferJoe - No-one does metrics, but a lot of people get done by it. (The farm is half as big, it is almost twice as far to town, the fences are a great deal longer, and the tax is twice as much. A consoling thought is that they have never converted chooks (chickens), as eggs still come in dozens.) As a practical unit of measurement, the Pascal is about as useful in single unit quantities as Farads. The deg. centigrade for temperature is quite useful, but having a separate unit of length just for dressmakers (the centimetre) is a fool of an idea. And those other things? A byte is from a spider, a nybble is from a goldfish, while a terrabyte is from a shark, piranha, car salesman, or alternatively the minimum RAM for the next M$ O$. The metric system was found to be essential for enabling bean-counters, CEO's and their immediate associates to enumerate without taking their shoes off. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 560713 | 2007-06-20 01:25:00 | OK..so why do hotdogs come in 12-packs and the buns in 10's? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 560714 | 2007-06-20 01:55:00 | Kilo is thousands Mega is Millions Giga is billions (I think) Tera, Peta then Zeta in order of scale probably check Wki for the amounts of those to be sure . SurferJoe46 is American, it would be easier for him to understand if you use "Stolen Barrels of Oil' . So Giga is billions of stolen Barrels of Oil Hope this helps :) |
Master_Frost (9951) | ||
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