b & B, k & K, m & M; was BSO on the radio - not for me anymore

[Bob DeMattia]

Well at least I got the 'k' right  :-).

-Bob


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Ric Werme <ewerme@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Dan wrote:
>
> > All of your bit rates are expressed in kB/s (the B is capitalized).
> > The capitalized B means the abbreviation stands for bytes/sec, not
> > bits/sec--a difference of approximately a decimal order of magniture.
> > (When you include the overhead, 1 kB/s is very close to 10 kb/s.)
> > However, I believe that you mean bits/sec. If so, the b should be
> > lower case. Better yet, spell out bits and bytes in all referencees to
> > data rates; the extra work is minimal and you eliminate the confusion.
>
> I figured out he meant b from:
>
> > > Hybrid HD offers
> > > 100 - 150 kB/s which must be divided amongst the subchannels.
>
> Might as well keep going - oops, maybe not.  I was going to gripe
> that SI prefixes greater than unity (K, M, G) are capitalized, and
> those less than unity (m, µ, n) were not.  It appears that kilo is
> lowercase.  (As are hecta and deka.)
>
> I have a lot of trouble when people who should be writing MB write mb
> instead.  Only wrong by 7 decimal orders of magnitude....
>
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
>