Notes - Metric Units

The following are notes from Computer Networks written by Tanenbaum 5th edition.

• The basic idea here is to remember that in computer science and networks, although metric system is used, there are times when a different version is used with the same acronym
• kilo 2¹⁰ rather than 1000
• 1024 bytes is 1 KB
• lowercase b means bits, 8 bits in one Byte

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