[tor-relays] High speed Tor relay advice

[Michael Armbruster]

On 2016-08-15 at 08:52, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte: "The megabyte is a multiple of the
> unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB."
> MB/s is a long-accepted shorthand for Megabyte per second, and yes, Mb/s is
> megabit per second. But please, take your "MiB" lunacy elsewhere.

Well, "MiB" is a completely other unit than MB, so that's no lunacy, but
in fact a different unit called "Mebibyte". Mebibytes are exactly 1024 x
1024 bytes or 2^10 multiplied by 2^10 bytes and those binary prefixes
give a more "accurate" representation of the size than the SI prefixes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

Best,
Michael


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