tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes?message-squaremessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up170
arrow-up170message-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 · 5 days agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareEvilBit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·5 days agoI grew up with science classes telling us always state the digits individually. One point three two.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 days agoMath class taught me to be precise I should always say “1 and 32 hundredths Megabytes”
minus-squarecomfy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 days 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).