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dickangstrom t1_jd1ouf0 wrote

Reply to comment by Quinexalt in A single sperm contains 37.5MB of DNA by mutilatedxlips

And, I'm the asshole that has to chime in to say OP didn't really have to, though. They could've just as easily moved the decimal a bunch and stated it in yottabytes. There's no rule that says what SI prefix you have to use, convenient as it might be.

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Quinexalt t1_jd2jkml wrote

Would you also say 1,000 million instead of a billion?

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dickangstrom t1_jd3ajay wrote

I could if I wanted to! The point is it's not wrong to do so.

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Quinexalt t1_jd3f3gc wrote

It is wrong and you're all gonna burn in Hades!!!

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