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98.32 kbs of rule data (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tf is a kilobarn

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=barn+area+(unit)

(Just a joke, don't take that too seriously)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What program is this? And why does it not show kilobytes for either side?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. I typed the top part, which starts qalculate (basically Wolfram|Alpha with units) and gives it the expression 98.32 kb to KB

I was expecting it to convert 98.32 kilobits to kilobytes, but it instead interpreted the 'b' to mean barns. The actual unit for a bit in qalculate is 'bit':