• @[email protected]
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    134 months ago

    One point three two, or one three two if it’s obvious from context where the decimal point is. That’s how you’re meant to pronounce digits after the decimal point in general.

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    I’d say one point thirty-two. As others noted, much depends on geography.

    Personally, I say the “actual” number up to 3 or 4 decimal places, with a lot of the reason depending on the specific context. If I had to asses, I’d say I say the “whole” number in over 50% of cases for 3 digits, and in about 10% for 4 digits. Anything over 4 decimal places and I fall back to individual digits.

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      114 months ago

      The only way you could use ‘thirty two’ correctly for that number would be ‘one and thirty two hundredths’ which would be pretty unusual.

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      Agree. For things like semantic versioning, in which “1.20.1” and “1.2.1” are two different things, you want to pronounce them “one point twenty point one” and “one point two point one”, respectively. But that is a bit of an outlier. File size should be pronounced “normally”, because “1.20” and “1.2” are the same value.

      • @[email protected]
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        I disagree. I would personally find one point two zero point one to be more natural and easier to understand.

        • comfy
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          I disagree. I would personally find one point two zero point one to be more natural and easier to understand.

          I disagree with that, because we’re dealing with a number and not a fraction. Linux kernel 4.20 is not equal to Linux kernel 4.2, we’re actually dealing with the integer 20 here. (yes, alphabetical sorting on a download server has lead me to download an outdated kernel version once)

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            Don’t you know that my head canon is universal canon? /s

            You make a compelling point. I concede to your logic, but refuse to change my ways.

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          54 months ago

          In that case it’s actually the twentieth (or more likely twenty first) minor version though, it’s not actually a decimal

  • d00phy
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    54 months ago

    First question, and it’s important: Are you Doc Brown?

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    I’m gonna have to side against Doc Brown on this one, as much as it pains me to say.

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    94 months ago

    I agree that the precision is not that valuable as some have said. I’d just read the numbers off as one point two three megabytes since anyone who cares can reconstruct the number, anyone who doesn’t can stick to the first few sig figs.

    For 257.62 GB I’d say “two hundred fifty seven point six two”. Yep. I put in the effort for the most significant of the digits, I dont bother beyond that.

    8249.19 GB? About 8 terabytes. Doesnt really matter anymore.