Talk:Kilobit

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Discussion about centralization took place at Talk:Binary prefix.

How can a kilobit be 1000 _OR_ 1024 bits?

See binary prefix - Omegatron 00:45, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

I just added a more meaningful byte value conversion, as that's something people would likely be looking for....

[edit] upper vs lower case

The article states that using lower-case 'b' for bits and upper-case 'B' for bytes is unchallenged. It should be noted that it can depend entirely upon context and while this seperation is the most common, lower-case 'b' also often means bytes, and older technical manuals sometimes upper-case 'B' means bits. Carewolf 09:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] kbit is incorrect?

"abbreviated kb, sometimes also (incorrectly) kbit" yet the unit of choice for this article is kbit ie. "kbit/s" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.152.115.183 (talk) 22:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

"bit" is the SI symbol for bit. So, it's definitely "kbit" under metric system rules. However, "kbit" is not an abbreviation, all abbreviations are forbidden in metric system - it's a symbol (or prefix + unit symbol, actually) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.97.252 (talk) 09:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)