[MLB-WIRELESS] hello

[Bob Keyes]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Tony Langdon wrote:

>
> "It's not 11 millibits per second...  it's 11 millibit which is 1.2
> millibits per second...."  Looks rather silly! :)
>
> Firstly, the lower case 'm' stands for milli (1/1000), capital 'M' means
> mega (1,000,000).  This is an international SI prefix standard.  A list of
> common SI prefixes can be found in the ARRL Handbook and many engineering
> and amateur radio test books.

whut's the Ess Eye Stuff? Down here, 'm' means "much". So that's a whole
heck of a lot of bits. And 11...well because 11 is louder than ten. Yeah!


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