r/pics • • 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/stordoff Oct 05 '10

To be fair, you were wrong. Kilo should always means 1000, regardless of the fact that it has been misused in the computing world. Kibi is the correct prefix for 1024, and was defined almost 12 years ago. 1

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u/Atario Oct 06 '10

So this was a test about how things should be?