Pierre Hanser wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Kind of fun exercise (no good for British English).
def units(value, units='bytes'):
magnitude = abs(value)
if magnitude >= 1000:
for prefix in ['kilo mega giga tera peta '
'exa zetta yotta').split():
magnitude /= 1000.
if magnitude < 1000.:
break
Only for hard drive manufacturers, perhaps.
For the rest of the computer world, unless I've missed
a changing of the guard or something, "kilo" is 1024
and "mega" is 1024*1024 and so forth...
even for cpu frequency?
I don't think so. But who cares? CPU frequency, apart
from being fairly meaningless anyway, doesn't cover
enough ground for anyone to need a routine like the
above to deal with it.
Anyway, I was focusing on the "units='bytes'" part above
which suggested a byte-oriented focus for the routine,
and CPU frequencies aren't measured in bytes...
-Peter
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