El mar, 26-05-2009 a las 20:17 -0600, Gary Mazz escribió:
Andre,
Maybe I've misinterpreted what was proposed? I though if a particular industry infrastructure, like broadcast and telecom, natively uses a terminology like bits, the spec won't support their native terminology. For example cable channels, satellites and mpeg is commonly referred to bits.
By not supporting the native units of an industry, you infer that is not an industry your specification recognizes. I'm sure that's not the intent, but that is how it may be interpreted.
I apologize for my intermission but I would give my grain of sand. I think that the "International System of Units" should be used and the representation should support this kind of numbers, for example, support units like: "1 bit", "1 kbit", "1 Gb", "1 GiB", "1 Ghz", etc. Don't forget that "kilo-" is represented by "k" (not "K") and the difference between "Gb" (gigabit) and "GiB" (gibibyte, giga-binary-byte).
-gary
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