Thanks. That was what I was looking for.

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the issue is that the result is written in scientific notation

Which honestly is never an issue, only people having forgotten how to fluently read it. 😛

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 "Read a 2097000 byte chunk")
  2. It's written down in a longer form than it would be if it was just written down in decimal base, which makes it completely useless to use such a notation in this case.

Edit: seems like lemmy.ml is shitting themselves atm, excuse the multiple deleted comments

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