Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.2-9+b1
Severity: minor

find(1) documents the following suffixes that can be applied to the
argument of a -size criterion:

              `k'    for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)
              `M'    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)
              `G'    for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

These are not the correct names for these units.  The prefixes "kilo-",
"mega-" and "giga-" properly refer to the decimal multipliers 10^3,
10^6, and 10^9.  To refer to the binary multipliers 2^10, 2^20, and
2^30 the documentation should instead use the IEC prefixes "kibi-",
"mebi-", and "gibi-".

-zefram

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