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leugim 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 bill...

Oh great so 2*30=60 he only owes 28.3$ million... hehe

I guess you wanted to say 2^30 which makes 1.5$

hansvm 16 days ago | [–]

My hunch is the HN formatter swallowed the double asterisk typical of python exponents.

While we're being pedantic, 2^30 is 28 in normal programming languages ;)

tomjakubowski 16 days ago | [–]

But 2^30 is 28.

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