On 06/26/09 05:31, Warp wrote:
>    Btw, I have never understood why "kilobit" is so popular of a term.
> Many things are measured in kilobits for no apparent reason, even though
> other similar things are measured in kilobytes.

	Like Andrew, I've seen it only in communications (and encoding is also 
considered part of communications...).

	Think modems (the phone ones). In the old days, it was all baud. 1 baud 
is 1bit/s. It probably has stuck since.

	Incidentally, I think with old modems, sending 1 byte didn't entail 
sending 8 bits. I think they had two error correcting bits, making 
sending 1 byte the same as 10 bits. If there's truth to that, I can see 
why it'd make sense to specify bits.


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A: Six sick Sikhs (sic).


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