Just to mention, these K M G suffixes are dimensionless. They can be used
simply out of convenience, like 4K is a shorthand for 4000. And 9G is
definitely easier to write and *therefore less prone to error* than a full
literal. Dimensional analysis is fine but not the only reason to add these.
pozdrawiam,
Arkadiusz Bulski
2016-08-27 11:04 GMT+02:00 Arek Bulski <arek.bul...@gmail.com>:
> SI units are a standard that was kind of imposed top down on the computer
> science community. But we learned to use KB MB so why no keep the defacto
> standard we already have? Kibibytes and mibibytes were never really
> adopted.
>
> 1K == 1000
> 1KB == 1024
> 1M == 1000**2
> 1MB == 1024**2
>
> Suffixes, simple.
>
> int_value = 8M
> float_value = 8.0M or float("8M")
> fraction_value = Fraction(1M, 8) or Fraction("1M/8")
> decimal_value = Decimal("1.2345M")
>
> Suffixes are by definition at the end of a literal. So
>
> 1E1E == 1E1 * 1E
>
>
>
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