Archive for the ‘Quantity’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
When you were a kid (some of you may still be), how many times do you recall your parents or some authority figure prefacing an admonition with "if I told you once, I told you a million times"? Well, how long would it take them to tell you something ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
We've all run into it. You get your computer with the 300 gigabyte drive and when you look at the space free, it says that the drive's capacity is actually 279 gigabytes. You think you were a victim of false advertising until you read the fine print. The manufacturer measures ...
Posted in Bits & Bytes, Quantity | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
So, I know I said no posts this week to save my eyes, but this is going to be a short one.
Reader Joel dropped me a note asking my opinion about his math on a Metafilter post about bidis. In it, he points out a page that makes some ...
Posted in Health, Quantity, Weight/Mass | 1 Comment »
