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Dont Delay
Register Today
Marden is a large village we believe we should have
Broadband if you think the same register
REGISTERING DOES NOT
MEAN YOU HAVE TO ORDER.. IT JUST SHOWS YOUR INTERESTED
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE -- Except that slow 56k
modem :)
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What
are Bits, Bytes & Kilos anyway ?
Bits and
bytes are a measurement of electronic
information. A byte is always 8 bits. Communications
speeds are usually measured in bits per second while
many computer operations are measured in bytes per
second. A "56k" modem is 56 kilobits and a "2m" DSL
connection is 2 megabits per second. "128MB" of
RAM is 128 megabytes. Ideally when abbreviations are
used, b means bits and B means bytes. Baud rate
is another measure of transmission speed and is the
number of actual signals sent per second. At one time
it was equal to the bits per second, but modern
technology allows us to send more than one bit per
electric signal.
Traditionally kilo
means one thousand exactly. In the communications
world engineers call a thousand bits transmitted in a
second 1 kilobit per second. Makes sense. Now while
1000 is a nice round number for humans to work with,
it isn't for computers. Mathematically speaking humans
use decimal or base 10 numbers and computers use
binary or base 2. 1024 is 2 to the power of 10 which
is a significant binary value and so is represented by
kilo in the computer world. Mega is similar
except it means one million and in the computer world
is 1024 kilo or 1,048,576. Ideally when abbreviations
are used, k means 1000 and K means 1024.
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Computers |
Everything else |
number system |
binary |
decimal |
count by |
twos |
tens |
kilo |
1,024 |
1,000 |
mega |
1,048,576 |
1,000,000 | |
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