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[LordRaiden]

.

 

[loup garou]

Are you kidding?

 

[Shooters]

kilo = 10^3
mega = 10^6

 

[LordRaiden]

No, I'm serious. I'm trying to write up a comparison paper and I want to get the use one of those as a comparison, but I don't want to use the wrong one and look like a fool. Of course I'm probubly already doing that by posting this.

 

[Banana]

(Shhh . . . )

Hey Lord Raiden, I'll trade you my large 640 kilobytes of RAM for your puny 128 megabyte of RAM, OK?

 

[LordRaiden]

Thanks Shooters!

 

[LordRaiden]

LOL at 1yellowperil, I know what the difference is between mega and kilo in PC terms, but I wasn't sure if it was the same for weights.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
LOL at 1yellowperil, I know what the difference is between mega and kilo in PC terms, but I wasn't sure if it was the same for weights.

Do you have any clue how the metric system works?

 

[LordRaiden]

Obviously not. Besides, I hate metrics.

 

[Kenazo]

milli = 1/1000
centi = 1/100
kilo= 1000
mega = 1,000,000
giga = 1 billion

There are a lot more of them, but those are your basics.

 

[Beattie]

Is this thread a joke? How old are you 5? You did go to school right?

Not to make fun or anything, but I didnt know it was possible for someone to not know something this basic.

Soon there will be threads "what does it mean when the big hand is on the 5 and the little hand is on the 2?"

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Beattie
"what does it mean when the big hand is on the 5 and the little hand is on the 2?"

It means your clock is broken, because when the big hand is on the 5, the little hand should be 5/12 of the way between the 2 and 3.

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
milli = 1/1000
centi = 1/100
kilo= 1000
mega = 1,000,000
giga = 1 billion

There are a lot more of them, but those are your basics.

Of course there are more, like your friends and mine:

tera
peta
exa
zetta

and your favorite and mine:

yotta

-geoff

 

[Beattie]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: Beattie
"what does it mean when the big hand is on the 5 and the little hand is on the 2?"

It means your clock is broken, because when the big hand is on the 5, the little hand should be 5/12 of the way between the 2 and 3.

haha. true, true...

I thought about adding that but then I figured it makes it unnessarily complicated and most people would get the point.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

:beer:

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

This burns.

Not the same as in computer terms?

ouch.