Monday, August 10, 2009

Math for the modern generation

1. Billy-Sue is downloading the latest blockbuster via BitTorrent. The total download size will be 500MiB. After 20 minutes, she's downloaded 100MiB of the data.

1.a How fast has her torrent been downloading?

1.b The torrent cloud picks up speed, and she starts pulling data at 3Mb/s. How much data will she have fifteen minutes later?

1.c Billy-Sue's ISP starts throttling her internet connection to 50kB/s. How much data will she have ten hours after she started the download?

(All units and values intentional.)

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