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xirium on June 3, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Counting in hexadecimal on your fingers

With 10 fingers, you can count to 2^10.

JacobAldridge on June 3, 2008 [–]

Useful, unless you're my ISP and you dictate that 1Gb = 1000Mb.

Ah, Telstra Bigpond - a team that would mandate pi=3.0 because the value of simplicity far outweighs, you know, actually having practical applications.

ralph on June 4, 2008 | [–]

1Gb is 1000Mb. 1Gib is 1024Mib.

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