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Please fix the title, its 1.5 PB, not GB

by PedroBatista 10y ago

sp332 10y ago
It says 1.5M GB == 1,5000,000 GB == 1.5 PB
- fredsted 10y ago
  1.5 megagigabytes.
- rocky1138 10y ago
  It's still a stupid way to write it.
- Someone1234 10y ago
  That's confusing. To use an analogy, imagine if someone wrote: "$1.5M B" instead of 1.5 quadrillion or 1,500,000,000,000,000. You'd be confused, and rightly so. A lot of people would mistakenly read it either as $1.5M or $1.5B, neither of which is right. In this case a lot of people are misreading it as 1.5 GB/Day instead of 1.5 PB/Day. PS - The way Google uses it in the Blog post is pretty clear, they're describing what a petabyte is. My issue is with the HN title only.
  - leephillips 10y ago
    I'm sure I'm strange, but I find "$1.5M B" clearer than talk of "quadrillion"s, because I'm not confident I know what power of 10 a quadrillion is, but when I see M B I just add 6+9. Even then, the British sometimes say things like "thousand million", because billion over there used to mean 10^12, but now means 10^9 (which they used to call a milliard); as with other wordy number-words they've succumbed to American usage¹. ¹https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-billion https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-bill...
- PedroBatista 10y ago
  I didn't even saw that. good trick :)
- astrodust 10y ago
  That really is the worst possible way to put it. Why not express it in nanobytes? PB is a unit everyone is more familiar with than MGB.
  - ygaf 10y ago
    *M GB M is well-known in headlines as million. A GB is something people appreciate the size of, TB not as much, and PB is definitely not in most people's vocab.
    - kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
      > M is well-known in headlines as million. In which case it doesn't get combined with an SI prefix because the financial "M" is not the same as the SI Mega. Jamming two SI prefixes together is plain ignorant.
      - ygaf 10y ago
        I naturally read the title's GB as GiB (making only one SI prefix), but I don't hold anything against other people being more precise readers.
    - astrodust 10y ago
      Oh, come on. This is a bullshit argument. Hacker News does not have the same audience as The Daily Mail. Nobody measures things in megagigabytes. To be truly pedantic, "M" can also mean "mille" or thousand if you're talking about things like CPM. Mixing units like this introduces needless confusion when there's already a SI unit for the job: P.
cupantae 10y ago
1.5 kilokilokilokilokilobytes, more commonly known as 1.5 kilomegagigamillibytes.

Please fix the title, its 1.5 PB, not GB

sp332 10y ago

It says 1.5M GB == 1,5000,000 GB == 1.5 PB

fredsted 10y ago
1.5 megagigabytes.
rocky1138 10y ago
It's still a stupid way to write it.
Someone1234 10y ago
That's confusing. To use an analogy, imagine if someone wrote: "$1.5M B" instead of 1.5 quadrillion or 1,500,000,000,000,000. You'd be confused, and rightly so. A lot of people would mistakenly read it either as $1.5M or $1.5B, neither of which is right. In this case a lot of people are misreading it as 1.5 GB/Day instead of 1.5 PB/Day. PS - The way Google uses it in the Blog post is pretty clear, they're describing what a petabyte is. My issue is with the HN title only.
- leephillips 10y ago
  I'm sure I'm strange, but I find "$1.5M B" clearer than talk of "quadrillion"s, because I'm not confident I know what power of 10 a quadrillion is, but when I see M B I just add 6+9. Even then, the British sometimes say things like "thousand million", because billion over there used to mean 10^12, but now means 10^9 (which they used to call a milliard); as with other wordy number-words they've succumbed to American usage¹. ¹https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-billion https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-bill...
PedroBatista 10y ago
I didn't even saw that. good trick :)
astrodust 10y ago
That really is the worst possible way to put it. Why not express it in nanobytes? PB is a unit everyone is more familiar with than MGB.
- ygaf 10y ago
  *M GB M is well-known in headlines as million. A GB is something people appreciate the size of, TB not as much, and PB is definitely not in most people's vocab.
  - kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
    > M is well-known in headlines as million. In which case it doesn't get combined with an SI prefix because the financial "M" is not the same as the SI Mega. Jamming two SI prefixes together is plain ignorant.
    - ygaf 10y ago
      I naturally read the title's GB as GiB (making only one SI prefix), but I don't hold anything against other people being more precise readers.
  - astrodust 10y ago
    Oh, come on. This is a bullshit argument. Hacker News does not have the same audience as The Daily Mail. Nobody measures things in megagigabytes. To be truly pedantic, "M" can also mean "mille" or thousand if you're talking about things like CPM. Mixing units like this introduces needless confusion when there's already a SI unit for the job: P.

cupantae 10y ago

1.5 kilokilokilokilokilobytes, more commonly known as 1.5 kilomegagigamillibytes.