OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 days agoYou've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boyslemmy.worldimagemessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1148
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minus-squareWirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoThe one thing metric screws up is file size. A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes or 1,000,000 kilobytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes. A gibibyte is 1024 mebibyte or 1,048,576 kibibyte or 1,073,741,824 bytes, because it needs to go by increments of a power of 2. This would be fine except gigabyte also means gibibyte. So if a file claims to be N GBs, I don’t know if it actually means metric GBs or GiBs.
minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoThat is not exactly metric 's fault though. It’s whoever made the decision to portray stuff as such in operating systems
minus-squareMBech@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoI got a question about hard drive sizes on a math test 15 years ago. Was super frustrating, since I didn’t know wether or not the person who wrote the test, knew the difference.
The one thing metric screws up is file size.
A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes or 1,000,000 kilobytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes.
A gibibyte is 1024 mebibyte or 1,048,576 kibibyte or 1,073,741,824 bytes, because it needs to go by increments of a power of 2.
This would be fine except gigabyte also means gibibyte. So if a file claims to be N GBs, I don’t know if it actually means metric GBs or GiBs.
That is not exactly metric 's fault though. It’s whoever made the decision to portray stuff as such in operating systems
Imperial thinking people most likely
I got a question about hard drive sizes on a math test 15 years ago. Was super frustrating, since I didn’t know wether or not the person who wrote the test, knew the difference.