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Just as a side note for any reader that doesn't already know it, the computer ones are 2 to the power of a multiple of 10.
So 1 kilobyte is 2^10^ (which is 1024) bytes, 1 MiB is 2^20^ (1048576) btes and so on.
So there is actually some logic behind the wierd looking numbers.