My friend math fail
A friend of my MSN me today telling me to go apply for Starhub mobile broadband. He was saying the $5 plan is good and cheap. Very worth it.
So I went to Starhub website to look at the plan. The $5.35 plan only gives $20 worth of surfing. And each kb is 0.32cent.
Without doing my math, I told him that its as good as m1 because m1 plan is 5gb at $22.42. More worth it. He told me that the Starhub plan is 6gb free. I didn't believe it. If it is really 6gb at $5, they would have used that figure as a marketing message since it is clearly much better than their competitor.
So I took out my excel and do some math.
1kb = 0.32 cent = $0.0032
Total $20 free usage.
20 / 0.0032 = 6250kb
1mb = 1024kb
6250kb = 6.1mb
Wah piang. 6mb and 6gb very big different leh! Decimal point put wrong place huh?
So I told him that he count wrongly. It is 6mb free, not 6gb.
And it took him several second to discover that I was right. 6250kb != 6gb.
Tsk tsk..... Math really fail leh.
OK lah, I promise don't reveal to anyone who you are. Hahaha....
So I went to Starhub website to look at the plan. The $5.35 plan only gives $20 worth of surfing. And each kb is 0.32cent.
Without doing my math, I told him that its as good as m1 because m1 plan is 5gb at $22.42. More worth it. He told me that the Starhub plan is 6gb free. I didn't believe it. If it is really 6gb at $5, they would have used that figure as a marketing message since it is clearly much better than their competitor.
So I took out my excel and do some math.
1kb = 0.32 cent = $0.0032
Total $20 free usage.
20 / 0.0032 = 6250kb
1mb = 1024kb
6250kb = 6.1mb
Wah piang. 6mb and 6gb very big different leh! Decimal point put wrong place huh?
So I told him that he count wrongly. It is 6mb free, not 6gb.
And it took him several second to discover that I was right. 6250kb != 6gb.
Tsk tsk..... Math really fail leh.
OK lah, I promise don't reveal to anyone who you are. Hahaha....
Wah lao! Your friend's maths really cannot make it leh! How he graduate one? :p
Posted by
Cobalt Paladin |
8/26/2007 08:13:00 PM
1GB=1024MB
Posted by
Anonymous |
8/26/2007 08:18:00 PM
Cobalt Paladin: Ya lor. Cannot make it. Don't know how he grad one leh. Maybe degree buy online one. :P
young businessman: Oops. Typo. Thx for telling me. :D
Posted by
DK |
8/26/2007 08:50:00 PM
Well we can't blame your friend either coz its pretty obvious the ad was out to confuse or should I say "con" less knowledgable consumers into believing the same thing your friend did.
Posted by
Anonymous |
8/26/2007 10:37:00 PM
Bitbot: No lah, the Ads didn't try to confuse people. It just didn't state the amount of free data transfer given. Which is common everywhere.
Posted by
DK |
8/26/2007 10:51:00 PM
DK, not only your friend fails maths, he is easily conned! Bwahahahaha!
Posted by
Cobalt Paladin |
8/27/2007 12:30:00 AM
Cobalt Paladin: I think so too. Luckily I told him. Wait he really go sign up, thinking that really got 6gb free. Haha.
Posted by
DK |
8/27/2007 01:24:00 AM