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| | Binary prefix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | For example, hertz (Hz), which is used to measure clock rates of electronic components, and bit/s, used to measure bit rate. |
 | | So a 1 GHz processor performs 1,000,000,000 clock ticks per second, a 128 kbit/s MP3 stream consumes 128,000 bits (16 kB, 15.625 KiB) per second, and a 1 Mbit/s Internet connection can transfer 1,000,000 bits (125 kB, approx 122 KiB) per second, assuming an 8-bit byte, and no overhead. |
 | | CD capacities are always given in binary units. |
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