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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 haven't ever seen a computer data count that had a letter involved.
> [...] 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.
After many moans, Netgear upgraded the meter on some devices so that it could cope with larger numbers as people move into Tbyte territory. No need then to get into scientific notation.
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.
> [...] 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.
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.
> [...] 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.
