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One point four four
I have heard people drop the "point" and say "One Fourty-four".
criminal!
“One fourty-four Em Bee floppy”
I agree that the precision is not that valuable as some have said. I'd just read the numbers off as one point two three megabytes since anyone who cares can reconstruct the number, anyone who doesn't can stick to the first few sig figs.
For 257.62 GB I'd say "two hundred fifty seven point six two". Yep. I put in the effort for the most significant of the digits, I dont bother beyond that.
8249.19 GB? About 8 terabytes. Doesnt really matter anymore.
One thousand three hundred and twenty kb
"about a meg" because it's almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.
I'd round up to one and a half. Also remove "bytes" and "bites". 1.32 MB is "one and a half megs" or even "a meg and a half"
Usually one point three two
"One point three two", because otherwise the question is 'thirty two what'. Consider what happens if we put a zero on the end — does it become "one point three hundred and twenty" despite being exactly the same number?
Yeah and what is 1.032?
A rounding error
I'd probably say "one point oh three two" for that one though
I grew up with science classes telling us always state the digits individually. One point three two.
Math class taught me to be precise I should always say "1 and 32 hundredths Megabytes"
One and thirty two hundredths of a megabyte
Or
One megabyte three hundred and twenty kilobytes
One point three two. To me, thirty two is an integer.
The only way you could use 'thirty two' correctly for that number would be 'one and thirty two hundredths' which would be pretty unusual.
Agree. For things like semantic versioning, in which "1.20.1" and "1.2.1" are two different things, you want to pronounce them "one point twenty point one" and "one point two point one", respectively. But that is a bit of an outlier. File size should be pronounced "normally", because "1.20" and "1.2" are the same value.
I disagree. I would personally find one point two zero point one to be more natural and easier to understand.
Both depending on what I feel like saying.
I mostly heard it one point thirty two? Grew up in Sweden, living in France. If someone says one point three two I'd assume they're Americans.
I might be totally wrong, just stating what I have heard
No that's interesting, I was wondering if there was a cultural divide.
Thirty two sounds so alien to me, but I heard it in a Nerdstalgic video and wondered if it was an American thing
Definitely, in frech itd be un point trente-deux mégaoctets or 1.32mo
edit: forgot not everyone speaks french, the french version is one point thirty-two
oh interesting!
Canada (Ontario) here. Was taught explicitly to say "point three two"
I’m gonna have to side against Doc Brown on this one, as much as it pains me to say.
growing up with floppy disks and diskettes on the east coast US it was 'one point two megabyte' and 'one point four four megabyte' exclusively
The former.
Its pronounced 'About four thirds megabytes.'
Only time I can think of where the 32 of 1.32 could be said as thirty-two would be as a software version number
One and thirty-two hundreths
About one floppy disk, with a little free space to spare.
Not quite one and a half megabytes. Otherwise, one point three two.
just one-three-two, the point is implied
One point three two emm bee 😁
One point three two megs
Clearly it's one point three-twenty em-bee.
Usually the first unless you’re on radio then it’s preferred to read out numbers as each digit. “One decimal three two”
Either way but usually the former
Is that either way or either way?
The second you heathen.
Either way
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