In communications we talk often about throughput in
bits/second, or moving files of some particular size. We use
magnitude prefices for convenience
kilo
1000 ×
mega
1000000 ×
giga
109×
tera
1012×
There is often confusion as to whether a kilobyte is 1000 or
1024 bytes. When dealing with processor architectures, its
generally 1024. When dealing with communications, its
generally 1000. State assumptions if it is not obvious from
context.