A programmer and butcher shop puzzle
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A programmer walks to the butcher shop and buys a KILO of meat.
An hour later he comes back upset that the butcher shortchanged him by 24 grams.
Hint:- A computer Programmer can only solve and understand it 🙂
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In computer science-
1 k = 1024 units
So programmer was expecting 1024 gms of meat. But he got only 1000gms.
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