• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    213·
    5 months ago

    the issue is that the result is written in scientific notation

    Which honestly is never an issue, only people having forgotten how to fluently read it. 😛

    • sgh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      It is an issue for two reasons:

      1. It’s an approximation, which might be completely useless to you when coding (ie. “Read a 2MiB chunk from a file” is different from “Read a 2097000 byte chunk”)
      2. It’s written down in a longer form than it would be if it was just written down in decimal base, which makes it completely useless to use such a notation in this case.

      Edit: seems like lemmy.ml is shitting themselves atm, excuse the multiple deleted comments

    • sgh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      It is an issue for two reasons:

      1. It’s an approximation, which might be completely useless to you when coding (ie. “Read a 2MiB chunk from a file” is different from “Read a 2097000 byte chunk”)
      2. It’s written down in a longer form than it would be if it was just written down in decimal base, which makes it completely useless to use such a notation in this case.