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  1. Units
  2. ~~~~~
  3. To display quantities, Borg takes care of respecting the
  4. usual conventions of scale. Disk sizes are displayed in `decimal
  5. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal>`_, using powers of ten (so
  6. ``kB`` means 1000 bytes). For memory usage, `binary prefixes
  7. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix>`_ are used, and are
  8. indicated using the `IEC binary prefixes
  9. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_80000-13#Prefixes_for_binary_multiples>`_,
  10. using powers of two (so ``KiB`` means 1024 bytes).