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
[Peter Hansen]
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...
Maybe you missed these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
kilo-mega-giga-etc-should-be-powers-of-10-ly y'rs,
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