scp: rounding bug in displayed transfer rate?
Jefferson Ogata
Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov
Sun Mar 22 19:42:24 EST 2009
On 2009-03-22 00:19, Brolin Empey wrote:
> The formal convention is to use 'B' for bytes and 'b' for bits.
> However, many people mistakenly use 'b' for bytes. I can usually
> still tell what they mean because a combination such as "mb" for
> megabytes really means millibits, which is impossible because a bit is
> a fundamental unit of information.
A millibit is a valid measure of entropy. Otherwise you are correct.
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