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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2006
     

    Sept. 2, 2005, the fact reads:
    "The most popular size of a flash-memory drive is 256mb, followed closely by 512mb."

    The symbol for megabyte is MB not mb, which would be millibit, if there was a smaller quantum than bit.

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    You're absolutely right! What a great catch! See it's all the fine folks at the Fact Check Forum that keep this site running so smoothly. Thanks guys :-)

    • CommentAuthorhworchel
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006
     

    Of course there's a quantum smaller than bit. However, it is only recognised in the English system of measurement, not the metric system. It is known as the "little bit", and is immortalized in the Jackson Browne song "Stay".

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006
     

    yes there is a smaller quantity than a bit, but not 1000. digital bits are descretely distributed into 8, so if you were to measure in millibits it would be in incriments of 125.

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      CommentAuthorGeog
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006 edited
     

    Just if anybody wanted to know. I don't even know how relevant this may be.

    These are unit prefixes, as provided by the homework organizer my school provides. They apply to digital capacities (or whatever the real term is). This is a list, ordered from lowest to highest.

    atto - 10-18
    femto - 10-15
    pico - 10-12
    nano - 10-9
    micro - 10-6
    milli - 0.001
    centi - 0.01
    deci - 0.1

    deca -10
    hecto - 100
    kilo - 1000
    mega - 106
    giga - 109
    tera - 1012
    peta - 1015
    exa - 1018

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      CommentAuthorGeog
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006 edited
     

    That HTML editor doesn't work. Well, <sup> is *supposed* to make the text in superscript. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Meh.

    EDIT: I fixed it long agoes.

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      CommentAuthorlegatissimo
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006 edited
     

    It's beta forum software. We'll be moving to the next stable release (1.0) as soon as it's ready, which is soon, hopefully.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006 edited
     

    Works for me... I used to have the same problem, but then I set my account's default to HTML (in addition to setting it per-message) and it works fine...

    atto - 10-18
    femto - 10-15
    pico - 10-12
    nano - 10-9
    micro - 10-6
    milli - 0.001
    centi - 0.01
    deci - 0.1

    deca -10
    hecto - 100
    kilo - 1000
    mega - 106
    giga - 109
    tera - 1012
    peta - 1015
    exa - 1018

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006
     

    I've never come across the top and bottoms ones before :) Well now I know lol

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    Note that there are bytes, which are comprised of eight bits, not bits with bites in them.

    Though, a bit with bytes taken out of it is called partially eaten.

    Shane

    • CommentAuthorJackBauer
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2006 edited
     

    Here's a complete listing of the SI unit prefixes via the NIST. Don't ask me how to pronounce some of them :confused:

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      CommentAuthorElixer
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2006
     

    You may also want to take a look at this.

    • CommentAuthorabrown1982
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2006
     

    Small fun fact, did you know that half a byte is a nibble (or nybble)? :bigsmile:

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