[vorbis] Ogg Vorbis and Bitrate

[Jonathon Fowler]

Bit-measurements have always been expressed as powers of 10 (ie. kilobit 
  == 1000 bit, megabit == 1000000 bit, etc). Byte-measurements have 
always been expressed as powers of 2 (ie. kilobyte == 1024 bytes, 
megabyte == 1048576 bytes). It would be best to pick a convention and 
stick to it regardless of whether it's right or wrong otherwise there 
really will be confusion. Just look at the US and British 
interpretations of a "billion" dollars. A billion dollars US is a 
thousand-million dollars (usually) British. Frankly, if it works, why 
fix it.

Jonathon

Jay Sprenkle wrote:

>>On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:56:21PM -0400, Sterling Windmill wrote:
>>
>>>In Ogg Vorbis, does one kilobit equal 1000 bits, or 1024 bits?
>>>
>>Kilobit is 1000 bits
>>Kilobyte is 1024 bits
>>
>>Always (at least I really hope so!)
>>
>>
> 
> I assume you had a typo above, and you meant:
> 
> Kilobit is 1000 bits
> Kilobyte is 1024 BYTEs
> 
> I've heard lots of discussion about it,
> but what I was taught in school was kilo
> was greek for 1000. In most usages "kilo XXX"
> means "1000 of XXX". In electronics terms
> I understand we use it collectively wrong
> from a linguistic accuracy point of view
> and define it as a power of 2, or 1024.
> 
> I was not aware that anyone was defining
> it differently for bits vs bytes:
> kilo means 1000 for bits, 1024 for bytes.
> 
> Who came up with that, and can we start
> stomping it out as quickly as possible?
> We really need more absurd inconsistant
> rules in the world.
> 
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