[NCLUG] AUP, DHCP, and AT&T

Matt Pujol mattp at lsil.com
Tue Dec 11 12:20:47 MST 2001


Somehow I knew this would be much more fun than moaning about ATT....

The reference to SI got me going on a web search....and since Loeske hasn't
hosed our corporate net too badly, I was able to get a response in this
decade.  These are kinda interesting links, they come from the government so
they have to be true... the discusssion of kilo (which is with a lower case
"k") is here http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html.  The
discussion of binary units is here
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

Two interesting(?) questions come out of this....a could a Yotta (10^24) be
pronounced like "yadda" - I'm not sure, when I was in school we never had
anything bigger than a exa and we thought peta was bread.  The second
observation...would using kibiHertz to designate 1024 bits transmitted in
one second be an improper mixing of units?

Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
Michael Dwyer
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 11:03 AM
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] AUP, DHCP, and AT&T


Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:39:49PM -0700, Matt Pujol wrote:
> > At risk of starting a meaningless thread on units designation, I have to
> > ask - is it appropriate to use a lower-case k to denote kilo (1000) or
and
> > upper-case K?
>
> yes.  upper case K is named for Lord Kelvin and denotes temperature in
> the SI units.

*Lord* Kelvin?  I didn't vote for him!  :P

Actually, I have heard some people trying to pass of the idea that

 k == 1000
 K == 1024

I'm not sure I buy it.  It all reeks of lying about hard drive specs. :)
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