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dd: report base 1024 for bytes per second

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Chris Ely <chris.ely <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, P <at> draigbrady.com
Subject: bug#75649: dd: report base 1024 for bytes per second
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:06:52 +0100

On Jan 21 2025, Chris Ely wrote:

> I'm still of the opinion that introducing base 10 output, in the realm of
> files that are always stored in base 2 sized blocks, is a mistake that only
> confuses people using dd unnecessarily.

But the size of files is only rarely a multiple of the block size, so
there is no connection between those metrics.

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