tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 hours ago"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes?message-squaremessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down13
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-square"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes?tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 hours agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareEvilBit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·8 hours agoI grew up with science classes telling us always state the digits individually. One point three two.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours agoMath class taught me to be precise I should always say “1 and 32 hundredths Megabytes”
minus-squarecomfy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 hour agoI don’t think that’s any more precise, just more verbose (read: inefficient).
I grew up with science classes telling us always state the digits individually. One point three two.
Math class taught me to be precise I should always say “1 and 32 hundredths Megabytes”
I don’t think that’s any more precise, just more verbose (read: inefficient).