Hurray for my 1000000000 post!
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LT
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Congrats thornc 
You bring up something that I have always been curious about.
Why is it that way? Why doesn't 1 gig = and even 1000 mbs?
Why not make it simple like metric?
And Peter .... you're right about Dennis .. he is beyond all and there isn't even any giga scale to measure him
You bring up something that I have always been curious about.
Why is it that way? Why doesn't 1 gig = and even 1000 mbs?
Why not make it simple like metric?
And Peter .... you're right about Dennis .. he is beyond all and there isn't even any giga scale to measure him
Dennis Bassboss
Member
The U.S are still in the stone age of imperial measurements and farenheits degrees....that's why!LT said:Congrats thornc
You bring up something that I have always been curious about.
Why is it that way? Why doesn't 1 gig = and even 1000 mbs?
Why not make it simple like metric?
And Peter .... you're right about Dennis .. he is beyond all and there isn't even any giga scale to measure him
At the image of their politicians...
No wonder spirit can't reply anymore from Mars...
LT said:
That's simple to explain... it all comes down to the way that computers store information: bits!
Then we get to the ANSI standard for a single caracter: byte, which as we all know is 8bits!
To store a single byte we need 2^3 bits... there isn't any whole number n, that will make 10^n = 8. So for storage computer engineers decided to use powers of 2 instead of 10.
So 1KB=1KiB=2^10=1024, 1MB=1MiB=2^20 and so on....
I enfasize storage, because in communications the International System is used. This international number system uses power of 10, multiples of 3 to make the distinction.
so 1K=10^3=1000, 1M=10^6 an so on!
So a network connection of 10Mb(10 mega bits) mean 10^6=1000000bits passing the cable!
One final question? What's a billion??
NOTE: By ^ I mean to the power of!
LT said:And Peter .... you're right about Dennis .. he is beyond all and there isn't even any giga scale to measure him
Well Dennis is at 1C3Ch!
So his post count still fits into a 16bits variable, well in fact he is only using 13 of those 16!
But give him time and he will break the lotto house and the all this systems!
Dennis Bassboss
Member
Dennis...Dennis....Dennis....What have I done to deserve such a faith???
Dennis Bassboss
Member
I will LT!...So better get this fishing tackle box ready...LT said:Thanks thornc for the explanation.
I also am waiting for Dennis to break the lotto house. Then I can ask him to take me fishing.
i would appreciate it if someone here would please write, in an official capacity, to the banks who hold my pittances, and inform them what $512 really should be written as.........thanks....and, if you're employed on a regular basis, perhaps a note to your employer........
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........i.p.a...... .......molson canadian.....
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........i.p.a...... .......molson canadian.....Brad said:
Well a Billion according to the International System is a Million of Millions, hence 10^(6^2)= 10^12!! That's probably what americans would call a Trillion!!
Take a look at this
to read a bit about binary representattion.
And this
, and this other for the name of reasoning behind large numbers!!
The ones that we want to win
!hypersoniq
Member
there are only 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary and those who do not...
those who understand binary and those who do not...
Brad
Member
Can't get your links open at the moment to look (must be my cable), but when dealing with American way of doing thingsthornc said:Well a Billion according to the International System is a Million of Millions, hence 10^(6^2)= 10^12!! That's probably what americans would call a Trillion!!
Take a look at this
to read a bit about binary representattion.
And this
, and this other for the name of reasoning behind large numbers!!
The ones that we want to win
, Billion is a thousand Million, hence we're back to 10^9. In fact a dictionary just confirmed it 
The irony of all this is that when I first came to Canada from Europe, I had to learn the Imperial system. Just as I got used to it Canada went Metric
Definition: [n] (in the United States) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
[n] (in Britain) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros
[adj] (U.S.) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units; (Britain) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units
So my original post should have said 'American' instead of 'British'.
Brad
Member
Finally got thro on the 2nd+3rd links (still no go on the first).
"There is no real hope of resolving the controversy in favor of either system. Americans are not likely to adopt the European nomenclature, and Europeans will always regard the American system as an imposition." How true.
Personally I like the Greek-based system, or the '3n' .
"There is no real hope of resolving the controversy in favor of either system. Americans are not likely to adopt the European nomenclature, and Europeans will always regard the American system as an imposition."
How true. Personally I like the Greek-based system, or the '3n' .