Hard drive sizes are typically marketed using the decimal meaning of prefixes, whereas RAM uses binary meanings. For example:
A 10 GB hard drive (common only a few years ago) typically has 10,000,000,000 bytes 10 GB of RAM though is equal to 10,737,418,240 bytes
More information about this can be found here.
The problem is to take 2 inputs based upon decimal prefixes (a number representing size and a string representing the units) and output the equivalent size using binary prefixes, as seen below:
[100], 'MB' -> [95.4] [100], 'GB' -> [93.1]
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Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 27 Jul 2012
Sorry but I don't understand your rounding results.
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@bmtran
on 10 Feb 2012
I would consider this to be the best solution, though it fails the test cases (only because of the precision of the test suite answers).
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