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Re:Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space by oz on Monday May 20, 2013 @10:43PM (#5741605)
Never knew Google Calculator could be used like that. Thanks.
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Re:Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space by ableal on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @12:51AM (#5741968)
Beware, it has a subtle catch:

    (1 TB) / (300 (MB / month)) = 291.271111 years
But if you think you're dealing with decimal Bytes, you're wrong - e.g, putting it in GB and taking the units out:

    1000 / (0.3 / month) = 277.777778 years
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte - Google is using TiB/GiB/MiB and writing up the wrong unit)
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Re:Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @03:22AM (#5742312)
I think you mean the right unit :)
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