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There have been literally millions of documents (manuals, articles, spec sheets, etc.) that used decimal prefixes to mean binary ones. The examples cited in the article are at the same time too few and too many. The text should be heavily summarized, and the references should be pruned to the most notable references, that are not dead links and have not been modified. ] (]) 17:39, 11 August 2023 (UTC) There have been literally millions of documents (manuals, articles, spec sheets, etc.) that used decimal prefixes to mean binary ones. The examples cited in the article are at the same time too few and too many. The text should be heavily summarized, and the references should be pruned to the most notable references, that are not dead links and have not been modified. ] (]) 17:39, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

== Bad references ==

Many of the <nowiki><ref></nowiki> entries are dead, or are webpages that have been updated since the last access. Many of those entries also lack the date of the document (as opposed to the date of access). Also many of those entries are not source references but footnotes; these must be merged into the text or eliminated. I will try to do some cleanup, but it is a huge task. ] (]) 17:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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Bit rates (data-rate units)
Name Symbol Multiple
bit per second bit/s 1 1
Metric prefixes (SI)
kilobit per second kbit/s 10 1000
megabit per second Mbit/s 10 1000
gigabit per second Gbit/s 10 1000
terabit per second Tbit/s 10 1000
Binary prefixes (IEC 80000-13)
kibibit per second Kibit/s 2 1024
mebibit per second Mibit/s 2 1024
gibibit per second Gibit/s 2 1024
tebibit per second Tibit/s 2 1024
Multiple-bit units
Decimal
Value Metric
1000 kbit kilobit
1000 Mbit megabit
1000 Gbit gigabit
1000 Tbit terabit
1000 Pbit petabit
1000 Ebit exabit
1000 Zbit zettabit
1000 Ybit yottabit
1000 Rbit ronnabit
1000 Qbit quettabit
Binary
Value IEC Memory
1024 Kibit kibibit Kbit Kb kilobit
1024 Mibit mebibit Mbit Mb megabit
1024 Gibit gibibit Gbit Gb gigabit
1024 Tibit tebibit —
1024 Pibit pebibit —
1024 Eibit exbibit —
1024 Zibit zebibit —
1024 Yibit yobibit —
—
—
Orders of magnitude of data

Excessive but pointless examples

There have been literally millions of documents (manuals, articles, spec sheets, etc.) that used decimal prefixes to mean binary ones. The examples cited in the article are at the same time too few and too many. The text should be heavily summarized, and the references should be pruned to the most notable references, that are not dead links and have not been modified. Jorge Stolfi (talk) 17:39, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Bad references

Many of the <ref> entries are dead, or are webpages that have been updated since the last access. Many of those entries also lack the date of the document (as opposed to the date of access). Also many of those entries are not source references but footnotes; these must be merged into the text or eliminated. I will try to do some cleanup, but it is a huge task. Jorge Stolfi (talk) 17:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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