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From: Patrick Jordan
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:00

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DaZZa <dazza@zipper.zip.com.au> burbled:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, it was written:
> 
> > > well, if you want to get tricky then the correct SI abbreviation would be
> > > Mb/s.
> > 
> > If so, what would megabits per second be?
> 
> mb/s
> 
> Large M = MegaBYTES
> Little m = megaBITS


No way. M is for mega, m is for mili. That's the SI standard. The
problem here is that bits and bytes are not SI units. There is no
standard abbreviation. You might want to use B for bytes and b for
bits, but I think in general you just need to give sufficient context
for it to be obvious (exactly as the ad that started this question
didn't). 

Patrick.

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