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Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

the issue is that the result is written in scientific notation

Which honestly is never an issue, only people having forgotten how to fluently read it. 😛

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sgh@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It is an issue for two reasons:

It’s an approximation, which might be completely useless to you when coding (ie. Read a 2MiB chunk from a file is different from reading a 2097000 byte chunk)

It’s written down longer than the original value, which makes it useless to use such a notation in this case.
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