For American numbers

[Alan Kennedy]

[Scott David Daniels]
>> 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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