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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antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoExcept 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.
Pretzilla@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Information entropy is measured in bits, and the bits are almost always fractional.
poopsmith@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Lol thanks for the chuckle