@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 15 hours ago"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes?message-square69fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down13
arrow-up144arrow-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 • 15 hours agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-square@EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglish8•14 hours ago“about a meg” because it’s almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.
minus-squareTheRealKunilinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 hours 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-square@notarobot@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•edit-213 hours 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”