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rockin5b
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Feb 06, 2020
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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 ...
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    antinode
    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.