KB is NOT the same as Kb right

[Geek Boy]

okay me and my friend got into a how-knows-more-about-computers thing.and he says KB is the same to kb and Kb,but I say that KB is differnt then Kb(KB is kilobyte and Kb is kilobite).
Whos right my or my friend?

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Doug Bunker

[Tyler]

KB is kilobyte kb is kilobit.
just like megabytes
Mb is megabyte Mb is megabit.
there is no "kilobite" it is bytes
bits and bytes are different.
bits is for transfer. bytes are for storage

[jtshaw]

a byte is 8 bits, it has nothing to do with one being for storage and one being for transphers.... For instance, the make a 56kbit connection can transpher at is 7kbytes.

Originally posted by Tyler:
KB is kilobyte kb is kilobit.
just like megabytes
Mb is megabyte Mb is megabit.
there is no "kilobite" it is bytes
bits and bytes are different.
bits is for transfer. bytes are for storage

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John
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My computer said "Windows98/NT or better" so I installed Linux.

[LiquidGoop]

K = Kilo (1000)
b = bit
B = byte (8 bits)
M = Mega (1000000)

it's technically incorrects to say mb when you're referring to megabyte. mb means millebits, or thousands of a bit.

[llreye]

Agree with all above except:

m is typically milli or 1/1000

While SI nomenclature is in 10's with larger groupings in 1000's, computer terms are typically in 1024 or 2^10.

e.g. 1KByte = 1024bytes, etc. One of the few exceptions is the storage industry which uses 1MByte = 1 000 000 bytes vs 1 048 576 bytes.

While it's nice to designate between bit & byte by the case (b or B), it's usually necssary to look at context.
-MKC

[Geek Boy]

Originally posted by Tyler:
KB is kilobyte kb is kilobit.
just like megabytes
Mb is megabyte Mb is megabit.
there is no "kilobite" it is bytes
bits and bytes are different.
bits is for transfer. bytes are for storage

KB is commely used for storage and Kb is commely used for transfer,but u don't have to use KB for storage and Kb for transfer



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Doug Bunker

I think I'm 00011100 years old

[LiquidGoop]

I was just trying to show the difference between capital letters. It was solely for the purpose of resolveing an "argument", if you want to call it that. You're right though.