Showing posts with label xkcd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xkcd. Show all posts
Thursday, November 27, 2008
For the front of my 209 final exam...
For the front of the ECE 209 (Circuits and Electronics Laboratory) final exam I'm giving this Tuesday...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Because it drives me nuts...
From xkcd/394:
On a serious note, "kB" is "kilobyte" and "kb" is "kilobit." An uppercase "K" is "Kelvin," and so it should never be paired with either "B" or "b". For most modern machines, a "B"yte is 8 "b"its, but there is NO GOOD REASON to assume this case. The meaning of "kilo" is context-dependent, though it's computationally convenient to use 1024 rather than the standard 1000 (because computers address things in base-2).
On a serious note, "kB" is "kilobyte" and "kb" is "kilobit." An uppercase "K" is "Kelvin," and so it should never be paired with either "B" or "b". For most modern machines, a "B"yte is 8 "b"its, but there is NO GOOD REASON to assume this case. The meaning of "kilo" is context-dependent, though it's computationally convenient to use 1024 rather than the standard 1000 (because computers address things in base-2).
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