w0w Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 The size of a torrent/file is shown as "xx MB" or "xx GB", but uTorrent calculates in Mebibyte/Gibibyte, not in Megabyte/Gigabyte!1 Megabyte = 1000 Kilobytes = 1'000'000 Bytes1 Mebibyte = 1024 Kibibytes = 1'048'576 Bytes...So a file of 1'048'576 Bytes is shown as "1 MB", what should be "1 MiB" or "1.05 MB"...Take a look at Wikipedias article, especially at the table on the right side.Also have a look at the German Wikipedia entry, the table there is much better Btw: same with the speeds... There it says "kB/s" what should be "KiB/s" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 The international usage (in IT) about speed is kB/s or MB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=2154Discussed a good (almost) 4 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0w Posted September 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 convention 8 kB/s = 1 MB/sWtf? I didn't know I've got ~8 MB/s Upload (I've got 64 kB/s, so...) xDYeah, discussed, but never changed -.- Why? (I don't want to read all the 6 pages, no time...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 True. Fixed in my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0w Posted September 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 Well, of course you can use kB/s, but then you have to devide the number of Bytes per second by 1000, not by 1024 If you calculate with 1024, you have to use KiB/s...Same thing with MB/s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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