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Detect the Swapped Units

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Daily number: #31
Challenge type: Spot the Hallucination
Difficulty: Medium
UTC date: 2026-09-12

Scenario

Synthetic technical note: A test reports a transfer rate of 8 MB/s. The note defines MB as megabytes. An AI summary changes the result to 8 Mb/s and says the rate is unchanged. The supplied key states that one byte equals eight bits. Which statement identifies the problem?

Choose one

The capital M keeps the scale the same, so changing B to b is only a formatting adjustment.The summary changes megabytes to megabits while keeping 8, so the reported rate changes.Lowercase b is the preferred notation for transfer rates, so the revised unit is more precise.The two rates cannot be compared until both are converted into a third unit such as kilobytes per second.

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