File sizes should be SI units, not IEC units.  Disks are measured in SI
units for a reason.  The disk size and file size in GLib (Nautilus
especially) should be SI units, too.  Even Apple does this now.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419

1,000 byte file = "1.0 kB"
1,000,000 byte file = "1.0 MB"

IEC units are for things like memory that naturally come in multiples of
a power of two, to make calculations simpler.

1,024 x 1,024 byte of memory = "1.0 MiB"

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Use IEC standard for binary byte units 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369525
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