Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads?

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember hearing about some burger joint (maybe a burger king of sorts) that came out with a 1/3rd pounder to compete with the 1/4 pounder. But it failed because the perception was that 4 is bigger than 3. Math is hard for people.

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  • BlahajByte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger

    It was A&W

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  • neidu4@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Should’ve called it a 2/6 pounder

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    • zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d beat that with the 3/9 pounder!

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      • neidu4@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lies, nobody can make a burger that big

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, I think it was A&W, and we had this exact discussion at work, because the coworker wanted more beef with the 4 unit

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• Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m genuinely surprised that manufacturers use bytes instead of bits, the numbers could be 8x higher

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