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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by Flimm on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:11PM (#11099766)
Fun fact: 1kbit/s is always 1000 bits per second and never 1024 bits per second.
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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by rasz_pl on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:57PM (#11099973)
fun fact: and this is why you need to divide by 8 to get theoretical speed, or use mental shortcut of dividing by 10 to approximate protocol overhead.
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