[Python-ideas] real numbers with SI scale factors: next steps

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> Random832 writes:
>
>  > Also, interesting quirk - it always rounds up. 1025 bytes is "1.1K", and
>  > in SI mode, 1001 bytes is "1.1k"
>
> That seems to be right approach: in system administration, these
> numbers are used mostly to understand resource usage, and
> underestimates are almost never what you want, while quite large
> overestimates are tolerable, and are typically limited because the
> actual precision of calculations is much higher than that of the
> "human-readable" output.

That would seem to apply to "space used" but not to "space available".

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