@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 3 months ago"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes?message-square76arrow-up171
arrow-up171message-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 • 3 months agomessage-square76
minus-square@EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months ago“about a meg” because it’s almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.
minus-squareTheRealKunilinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 months 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-23 months 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”