Brent Brown wrote

>Just before this thread dies, there are a couple of things I'm not
>quite 100% sure on. What the correct suffixes are for kilobytes,
>kilobits etc? I think we use "K" because we mean 1024 (not "k"
>which means 1000), B for bytes and "b" for bits, but I'm not sure.
>eg.

Clear and logical :)

I like and use that system.

Problem is megabit per second...
But it seem like we normaly default to the 10^x interpretation, not the binary number.  ...and millibit per second is very seldom used...

Just one correction as we are into that business:   ;)
prefix (not suffix) = the "factor" we put before the unit; i.e the "k" in km

Speaking of units, I recently read an american paper and there are two units I am not sure about, can somebody fill in:

mils =   (sounds like milli inch??)
microns =   (micrometer? (µm))

Thanks in advance
/Morgan
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