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Fellow Googler here. I think it’s best to report those numbers with the appropriate SI prefix: 4.414 MB and 8.572 MB. Reporting numbers as “X thousand kilobytes
by cornstalks 7y ago
Fellow Googler here. I think it’s best to report those numbers with the appropriate SI prefix: 4.414 MB and 8.572 MB. Reporting numbers as “X thousand kilobytes” makes it harder to grok the real scale.
- zaroth 7y agoPardon me making a joke at your expense cornstalks, but... Is this what a culture that AB tests 34 shades of blue looks like? I think we can handle the conversion here in the HN comment section!
- abacadaba 7y agofwiw, when i saw the prefix and no commas i subconsciously assumed it was under 1000KB and read it wrong, until that comment made me take another look.
- typeformer 7y agoHa, at first I thought "cornstalks" was a new slang reference for Googlers and was just over my head.
- zaroth 7y agoWell if it wasn’t, it certainly is now. Thanks for that typeformer.
- Hixie 7y agoSorry, I just copied and pasted the number as it appears on our benchmark page. :-)
- Faark 7y agoAlso please be aware not all locals use "." as thousands separator. About half of the world [0], including we here in Germany, actually uses the dot as decimal separator. Thus your number "4.414 MB" actually looks confusingly close like ~4.41 GB to me on first sight. An easy way to avoid this is to not rounding to three digits after your only dot or comma. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Arabic_numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Arabic_numer...