noob question

[rmhuntley]

I'm almost ashamed to ask this, but can someone explain the diff between M/hs and K/hs?

[Deathwing]

If i remember, Mhash is for SHA and Khash for scrypt mining.

[tacoman71]

If i remember, Mhash is for SHA and Khash for scrypt mining.

Mh/s is Mega hashes per second or how many million hashes per second. Kh/s is Kilo hashes per second, or how many thousand hashes per second. What xDeathwing means is that typically with GPUs, you see MH/s for SHA-256 mining and Kh/s for scrypt.

[fildza]

Tera  -1 000 000 000 000 000 000
Giga  -1 000 000 000 000 000
Mega -1 000 000 000 000
Kilo   -1 000 000 000

[rmhuntley]

ok, so the only difference, aside from their different uses is the total number of hashes? that's what I thought, but didn't  want to assume

[ninjaboon]

ok, so the only difference, aside from their different uses is the total number of hashes? that's what I thought, but didn't  want to assume

yes, total number of hashes per second.