Using standardized SI prefixes

[David Verhasselt]

Perhaps transforming it into a localization problem would do the trick.
This way, users would be able to set their preference on byte-count in
the same place as their preference on currency, decimal, and am/pm vs
24h. Applications could make use of the localization settings to
calculate the amount of bytes, which would hopefully eventually
centralize and generalize what counting-method the user sees.

David Verhasselt