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Because deca isn't a good SI prefix, and only gets grandfathered in. Also because some people like weird derived units like moles. Fwiw, in many places ISPs adv
by Y_Y 3y ago
Because deca isn't a good SI prefix, and only gets grandfathered in. Also because some people like weird derived units like moles. Fwiw, in many places ISPs advertise speeds in megabits per seconds, no doubt to sounds right times faster than they are.
- fl7305 3y ago> advertise speeds in megabits per seconds "bits per second" is what it always has been for computer communication. When I got started, I got a 300 bits/second modem, which later got upgraded to 1200/75 bits/s and then 2400 bits/second. Later on, we had 57,6 kbit/second modems, 64 kbit/s ISDN lines, 2 Mbit/s ADSL, etc. All the speedtest websites I've seen also use Mbit/s. But sure, if I'm downloading the latest Ubuntu distro, I want to know the current speed in Megabytes/s.
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