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rockin5b
Feb 06, 2020Aspirant
Traffic Meter explanation
Hello to anyone who might be able to help explain, On my traffic meter it reads that I used 43,479MB for Upload and 1.54174e+06MB for Download. How does this read out in Gigabytes/Terabytes? I ...
- Feb 08, 2020
> [...] So you are saying 11.4 GB or 11.4 TB... [...]
No. 1.5e+06 = 1.5*(10^6) = 1500000 =
"one point five times ten to the sixth"
With the units, 1.5e+06MB = 1500000MB = 1500GB = 1.5TB."one point five to the sixth" = 1.5^6 =
1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 = 11.4, a different number. The
"11.4" is what you're saying if you read it wrong.
rockin5b
Feb 06, 2020Aspirant
So, thanks for the link. It looks like over 1.5 TB. Is that my understanding? I see now that the "e" is exponent and ty for the clarification. My time has mostly been in the military...so when I see "e" it threw me off until I looked at the link.
antinode
Feb 07, 2020Guru
> [...] It looks like over 1.5 TB. Is that my understanding? [...]
I don't know if it's _yours_, but that's how _I_ interpret it.
> [...] the "e" is exponent [...]
That's the origin, but note that it should be read as "times ten to
the <whatever> power", _not_ as "to the <whatever> power", which you
might hear from the ill-informed). That is, your value is about "one
point five times ten to the sixth", not "one point five to the sixth"
(which would be about 11.4). The "ten" is implicit.