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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lengths such as inches, feet and miles they are all unrelated to one another so here is my proposal.

Instead of the kilobyte range we would have a bet. This is the size of the extended ascii table off 255 ascii characters that are 7 bits each or 1785 bytes. The bet comes from alphabet.

Instead of megabytes we have the img which is based off the average size of a photo at 1.44mb which is only coincidentally the same size of a floppy disk.

Instead of a gigabyte we have the bloat which is derived from total install size of Windows XP at around 2.4gb.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows 11 installation requirements in Crown English:

  • 27 bloats of free space in the hard disk drive;
  • 1โ…” bloats of RAM;
  • Processor with at least of 60 milliard beats per minute clock rate;
  • ...
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

In addition to that we may add a Jude because a the average MP3 file of Hey Jude by the Beatles is around 8 MB.