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sgh@lemmy.ml 5 weeks agoIt 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.