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"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I’d say the second one is more correct

In this case, it's not about what sounds good or personal opinion, there is a standard name for that number for a reason. If I go around calling 100 "one oh oh" or "tenty ten", it's clear what number I mean but I can't honestly call it more correct, because there's a standard English name for it.

To demonstrate a part of why it's clearer that way, put these numbers in ascending numerical order: (e.g. 1, 2, 3, ... )

one point three
one point twenty-nine
one point thirty
one point thirty-one
one point three-thousand-and-fifty-two

Hopefully this clarifies that we're not actually dealing with a "thirty-two" when we're talking about 1.32 (edit: that said, when we're talking about version numbers, e.g. Linux kernel 4.20, which is greater than Linux kernel 4.9, then we'd say "four point twenty")