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feat: consider using binary size units by default #1174
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we do have the I wonder if the community has any input for this. |
@matklad would you have been confused if we had the units MB instead of M? |
I probably would have been, yeah! Until writing this issue, I actually didn't fully realize that the official SI unit abbreviation is MB and not M (it's obvious in retrospect, but I just never thought about that) |
+1 to this being confusing. I just spent a while trying to figure out why a Google drive file that was 2.9GB suddenly became 3.1 when I downloaded it. Defaulting to the binary interpretation of file sizes seems appropriate for a tool largely used by software developers and IT folks. In any case, thanks for the great tool! |
By default,
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'sM
is 1000KB, not 1024KiB. This probably doesn't matter for the majority of the cases, but it is extremely confusing if you do need to know precise size of the file. I can't back that up, but my gut feeling is that 9 out of 10 people upon seeingwould interpret that as 132MiB, not as 132MB. I definitely was mightily confused over this today!
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