figures

i was in a meeting where the first slide had a 1.3 x 1.3 = 1.69.  the one presenting, however, explained it to mean she assumed the database size doubled.  i said if it doubled, it should be 1.3 + 1.3 or 1.3 x 2 which should give us 2.6.  our big boss joked, it was 1.69 because there was a power of 2 somewhere divided by n, to which i added maybe a square root of some factorial, too, ha-ha

in the same meeting, the one in charge of DB said database size was 1MB.

i butted in and said maybe she meant 1TB.

to my surprise, she objected and repeated it was 1MB.

i said that couldn't be otherwise that would be smaller than my pictures which are already more than 3MB each.

she insisted it was just megabyte.  i said when i was DBA DB size was already more than 1 terabyte.

i asked whether i could see her stats.  she showed me and, true enough, it was TB.

the DB did not shrink after all... ; )

oh, math...