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thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 month agoIf I ignore what’s in the search bar, I remember that the prefix “mebi” means 2^20 and use a calculator. Your point doesn’t make sense because you’re asking us to get mad at a tool intended to convert scientific units for using the bog standard scientific notation. Byte math uses powers of 2 ergo we should use a calculator that isn’t explicitly set up for rounding.
sgh@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Are you telling me that whenever you work with Digital Storage units you should never use scientific notation?
thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 month ago
You literally spent an entire comment explaining why you should not use scientific notation and now you’re asking why I might prefer precision in byte arithmetic?
Good luck with that.
sgh@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Nope, au contraire, I agree, I’m just pointing out that you said that digital storage conversion should happen in non-scientific notation, so you should now agree with OP in that Google is choosing the wrong output format for a, quote from the screenshot, “Digital Storage” conversion.
And yes, I’m writing multiple comments trying to explain this through narrative, without having to point out what in your reasoning sounds stupid.
I.E. Now don’t you tell me that Google is incapable of figuring out which output format it should use for such a calculation…