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> Nice, round number. 500 is also a businessy-salesy round number, compared to 512 which is what an engineer would have considered a round number. Gives some c
by dheera 4y ago
> Nice, round number.
500 is also a businessy-salesy round number, compared to 512 which is what an engineer would have considered a round number. Gives some clues as to where the number came from.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- ilyt 4y agoRound number (whichever base is rounded off to) also shows it wasn't some company-wide movement to cut some fat but someone come up with the number beforehand and told underlings to make it happen
- dagw 4y agoCome on. I've worked with engineers of all stripes and virtually none of them consider 512 a 'rounder' number than 500.
- dheera 4y agoI've worked with lots of engineers too and virtually none would consider 111110100 rounder than 1000000000.
- Freedom2 4y ago[dead]