I love approximations

Am very bad with conversions. Very lazy.
But am equally fond of approximations. That saves a lot of brain energy for better purposes.

Just to illustrate this…
This one is for Bytes to MB conversions.

Most of our unix systems display the file sizes in Bytes and it takes few seconds to figure out and get a sense of the “fat”ness of the file.

Here’s a quick thumb rule : Just count the number of digits.

6 -> First three
5,7,8 -> First two

If you see Five digits over there…take the first two digits.
5: 14125 ->14 -> 14 KB

If you see six digits over there…take the first three digits. It’ll be in KB
6 : 121224 -> 121 -> 121 KB

If you see seven digits over there, then it’s marking the beginning of the MB.
7 : 1412246 ->14 -> 1.4 MB

If you see eight digits over there, take first two digits, it’ll be in MB.
8 : 14122467 ->14 -> 14 MB

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