[Yr11 Information Technology] Programming task

[Dr Paul Chandler]

Perhaps showing my ignorance here ... But this is just a one-line
calculation, isn't it?  Admittedly a useful one to know and do, but is
there any more to it? 

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Subject: [Yr11 Information Technology] Programming task

An interesting and educational programming challenge for your kids would
be to write a program to convert from (K)bits per second to megabytes
per hour. e.g. you're downloading a torrent at 500 Kbps, how much will
be downloaded in an hour?

The algorithm is fun, and the unit conversions are handy to know.

Cheers
Mark

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