Re: [SMARTY-DEV] New plugin

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:34, Piotr Klaban wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Patrick Emond wrote: > > I've attached a new modifier plugin that I thought some of you may find handy. It > > rounds a number to two orders of significance and adds it's size prefix (similar to adding the > > -h option to an linux ls command). It supports up to a Yotta (1e24) in size. > > > > For example: > > > > 13990 -> 14.0K > > 4520000 -> 4.5M > > 123 -> 123 > > etc. > > Maybe it is better to divide by 1024, not by 1000. > I thought about dividing by powers of 2 but you'll notice in the plugin that to speed up the calculation there isn't actually a division going on - that and dividing by 1024 would suggest that we're working out bytes and not any other unit (like scientific units for instance). - Patrick > > The name isn't so good so if anyone can think of anything better to call it please > > let me know. > > In one of my app I called it nice_size() (nice to eyes). > > -- > Piotr Klaban -- Patrick Emond <patrickemond@softhome.net>