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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks. That was what I was looking for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, au contraire, I agree, I’m just pointing out that you said that digital storage conversion should happen in non-scientific notation, so you should now agree with OP in that Google is choosing the wrong output format for a, quote from the screenshot, “Digital Storage” conversion.

  And yes, I’m writing multiple comments trying to explain this through narrative, without having to point out what in your reasoning sounds stupid.

  I.E. Now don’t you tell me that Google is incapable of figuring out which output format it should use for such a calculation…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks. That was what I was looking for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you telling me that whenever you work with Digital Storage units you should never use scientific notation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks. That was what I was looking for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is an issue for two reasons:

  1. 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)
  2. It’s written down longer than the original value, which makes it useless to use such a notation in this case.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks. That was what I was looking for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see any reply from OP so I’m growing confident that what you’re talking about is not OP’s point.

  Often times when coding you may want to quickly write down 2MB but you may need to type it in bytes, so either you calculate 210241024 while coding, or you remember the number 2097152.

  Now, since 2097152 is not such a common number that one would remember, you may quickly turn to the globally acclaimed oracle search engine to get such an answer, but all you get is a number in scientific notation, without an option to read it in standard decimal base. So you have to open the calculator and ask the same question again to get the answer you need.

  If it helps, try to ignore what’s in the search bar and tell me if it makes more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks. That was what I was looking for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s the issue, OP also changed from 1 to 2, so I believe they basically want to know the result of 2 * 1024 * 1024, but the issue is that the result is written in scientific notation.