For American numbers

[Peter Hansen]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> 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

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...

-Peter