Notational conventions

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The notational conventions used throughout this white paper are described here.

Table 1. Notational conventions

Table with three columns that contain information about notation conventions used in this paper.
Symbol Full name Derivation
KiB kibibyte 2 ** 10 byte == 1024 byte
MiB mebibyte 2 ** 20 byte == 1048576 byte
GiB gibibyte 2 ** 30 byte == 1073741824 byte
KiB/s kibibyte per second 2 ** 10 byte / second
MiB/s mebibyte per second 2 ** 20 byte / second
GiB/s gibibyte per second 2 ** 30 byte / second