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o11c · 3506 days ago · link · · parent · post: PSA: The difference between kilobyte (KB), kibibyte (KiB), kilobit (kb), and kibibit (kib).
Abbreviations: kilobit (kb), kibibit (kib), note the lowercase b. Also the term "baud" refers to "symbol per second", where "symbol" may be bit, byte, character, or whatever is convenient at the time. Note also that even though there are 8 bits in a byte of information, when transmitted over the wire each 8 bits are usually encoded across 10 bits for error control.
DarkLinkXXXX · 3506 days ago · link ·
Thanks. Also, I am aware that just because you transfer X bits, does not mean that all of it is content. I suppose a casual reader might not realize that, but I only wanted to talk about the math.