• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I mostly heard it one point thirty two? Grew up in Sweden, living in France. If someone says one point three two I’d assume they’re Americans.

    I might be totally wrong, just stating what I have heard

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      14 hours ago

      I had the same experience (also European), but didn’t know the Americans changed it specifically for bytes

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        10 hours ago

        We don’t. That’s just the normal way most people pronounce numbers with a decimal point. The big exception is prices: $1.32 is often pronounced “one thirty two”.

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      17 hours ago

      No that’s interesting, I was wondering if there was a cultural divide.

      Thirty two sounds so alien to me, but I heard it in a Nerdstalgic video and wondered if it was an American thing

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        16 hours ago

        Definitely, in frech itd be un point trente-deux mégaoctets or 1.32mo

        edit: forgot not everyone speaks french, the french version is one point thirty-two

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          6 hours ago

          Interesting - is there a point at which you’d switch to saying individual digits? Like if you’re listing eight digits of pi, is it still three point fourteen million, one hundred fifty-nine thousand, two hundred sixty-five?

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            13 hours ago

            Swedish would do the same as french, en komma trettitvå. Potentially some military would splice it up en komma tre två.