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Except that’s like dividing by zero. A millibit is undefined. A bit is the smallest indivisible unit of digital information.

But capitalization is important to distinguish between b for bit and B for Byte.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No, that’s like diving by 1,000.

Anyway, computer scientists split the bit back in 1969, which is how we’re able to make smaller and smaller computers: the bits are all smaller, so we can pack more into a single potato chip.

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- antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lol thanks for the chuckle
  
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Pretzilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Good catch but not quite. bps is a rate so it is allowed to be an abstract expression.

How many chickens per hour cross the road?

And more importantly, why.

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lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Information entropy is measured in bits, and the bits are almost always fractional.

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poopsmith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you had really slow Internet, like smoke signals or semaphores across a nation, you could characterize it as millibit:

1 bit over 1000 seconds = 1 millibit/s.

But yeah, it’s basically meaningless in today’s age for Internet speeds.

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