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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>baud</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="Batman-factor.html" title="Batman factor"/><link rel="next" href="baz.html" title="baz"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">baud</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Batman-factor.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="baz.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="baud"/><dt xmlns="" id="baud"><b>baud</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bawd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [simplified from its technical meaning] <span class="grammar">n.</span> Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud,
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thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning is <span class="firstterm">level transitions per second</span>; this coincides
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with bps only for two-level modulation with no framing or stop bits. Most
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hackers are aware of these nuances but blithely ignore them.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: <span class="firstterm">baud</span> was
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originally a unit of telegraph signalling speed, set at one pulse per
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second. It was proposed at the November, 1926 conference of the
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Comit<69> Consultatif International Des Communications
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T<>l<EFBFBD>graphiques as an improvement on the then standard
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practice of referring to line speeds in terms of words per minute, and
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named for Jean Maurice Emile Baudot (1845-1903), a French engineer who did
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a lot of pioneering work in early teleprinters.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Batman-factor.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="baz.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Batman factor<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>baz</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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