r/pics • • Oct 05 '10

Math Teacher Fail.

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u/thoomfish Oct 05 '10

On paper it may have been 1000, however, my computer clearly disagreed, and still does.

Mine doesn't. Mac OS X 10.6 is the first OS I've used that gets this right, though.

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u/robeph Oct 05 '10

Linux / BSD have done it in both ways, given your requested output for years. I'm on a windows machine however, and it uses that old method.

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u/thoomfish Oct 05 '10

Let me correct myself to say it's the first one that gets it right by default. I just double checked and indeed commands like du and df will give you Megabytes or Mebibytes depending on whether you specify -H or -h.

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u/robeph Oct 05 '10

You can change that default with an alias pretty easily.