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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 08, 2020Aspirant
Hello again,
i guess you might say i need the serious "dubbed"/moron version. So you are saying 11.4 GB or 11.4 TB...just confused a little. Thank you for the clarification if you could Sensei.
antinode
Feb 08, 2020Guru
> [...] 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.