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[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We already have a confusing abbreviation: B vs b. One is bits, one is bytes.

It's a pretty drastic difference. One Gb per second is only 125 MB per second. Don't mess up your capitalization!

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's for this reason I sometimes spell out the Bytes or bits. Eg: 88 Gbits/s or 1.44 MBytes

It's also especially useful for endianness and bit ordering: MSByte vs MSbit