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I'm not denying any of that. You can just be precise, is all.
But if you fall into the folly of decimal on a device inherently meant to process binary, then you might allocate an array of 1000 items, rather than the natural binary of 1024, leading to a chance of a memory overflow...
Like, sell by the 1000, but program by the 1024.
All the more reason to be precise