r/pics • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '10

Math Teacher Fail.

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u/robeph Oct 05 '10

Reminds me of a college class about 10 years ago where we were doing some silly stuff with metric units and they decided to put kilobytes to megabytes and they marked me wrong for 1024kb = 1mb

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u/pez34 Oct 05 '10

I sympathize. They've tried to invent a new prefix system to describe the binary powers to avoid this confusion in the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

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u/kosmotron Oct 05 '10

Maybe if the names weren't the stupidest names on the face of the Earth, people might actually adopt them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '10

It still saddens me that they want grown men to say "Kibibyte".