• Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    We already have a confusing abbreviation: B vs b. One is bits, one is bytes.

    It’s a pretty drastic difference. One Gb per second is only 125 MB per second. Don’t mess up your capitalization!

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      9 months ago

      It’s for this reason I sometimes spell out the Bytes or bits. Eg: 88 Gbits/s or 1.44 MBytes

      It’s also especially useful for endianness and bit ordering: MSByte vs MSbit