Editing Bit rate (section)

== Prefixes ==
When quantifying large or small bit rates, [[SI prefix]]es (also known as [[metric prefix]]es or decimal prefixes) are used, thus:<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5166093 | doi=10.1109/EDST.2009.5166093 | chapter=From millibits to terabits per second and beyond - over 60 years of innovation | title=2009 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology | year=2009 | last1=Jindal | first1=R. P. | pages=1–6 | isbn=978-1-4244-3831-0 | s2cid=25112828 }}</ref>
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|align="right"| 0.001&nbsp;bit/s ||= 1&nbsp;mbit/s (one millibit per second, i.e., one bit per thousand seconds)
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|align="right"| 1&nbsp;bit/s ||= 1&nbsp;bit/s (one bit per second)
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|align="right"| 1,000&nbsp;bit/s ||= 1&nbsp;[[kbit/s]] (one kilobit per second, i.e., one thousand bits per second)
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|align="right"| 1,000,000&nbsp;bit/s ||= 1&nbsp;[[Mbit/s]] (one megabit per second, i.e., one million bits per second)
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|align="right"| 1,000,000,000&nbsp;bit/s ||= 1&nbsp;[[Gbit/s]] (one gigabit per second, i.e., one [[1000000000 (number)|billion]] bits per second)
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|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000&nbsp;bit/s ||= 1&nbsp;[[Tbit/s]] (one terabit per second, i.e., one [[1000000000000 (number)|trillion]] bits per second)
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[[Binary prefix]]es are sometimes used for bit rates.<ref>Schlosser, S. W., Griffin, J. L., Nagle, D. F., & Ganger, G. R. (1999). Filling the memory access gap: A case for on-chip magnetic storage (No. CMU-CS-99-174). CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/7.5?topic=administering-monitoring-file-transfers-that-are-in-progress|title=Monitoring file transfers that are in progress from IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer|date=11 March 2014|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
The International Standard ([[IEC 80000-13]]) specifies different symbols for binary and decimal (SI) prefixes (e.g., 1 [[kibibyte|KiB]]/s = 1024&nbsp;B/s = 8192&nbsp;bit/s, and 1 [[mebibyte|MiB]]/s = 1024 KiB/s).