tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes?message-squaremessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down14
arrow-up168arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square64linkfedilink
minus-squareEndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 days ago“about a meg” because it’s almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.
minus-squareTheRealKuni@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days ago “about a meg” because it’s almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths. Tell me you never used floppy discs as a storage medium without telling me.
minus-squarenotarobot@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoI’d round up to one and a half. Also remove “bytes” and “bites”. 1.32 MB is “one and a half megs” or even “a meg and a half”
“about a meg” because it’s almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.
Tell me you never used floppy discs as a storage medium without telling me.
I’d round up to one and a half. Also remove “bytes” and “bites”. 1.32 MB is “one and a half megs” or even “a meg and a half”