[Yum-devel] [UG] progress meters

[Michael Stenner]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:25:51AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:59 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > files:  19/19  100%   data: 6.1 MB/6.1 MB 100%   time: 00:01:07/00:01:07 
> 
> The text interface for bittorent does something very similar. How well
> does that layout do when numbers start getting big?

Oh, I'd say it deals with big numbers pretty well :)

1024            1.0 k
4096            4.0 k
16384            16 k
65536            64 k
262144          256 k
1.04858e+06     1.0 M
4.1943e+06      4.0 M
1.67772e+07      16 M
6.71089e+07      64 M
2.68435e+08     256 M
1.07374e+09     1.0 G
4.29497e+09     4.0 G
1.71799e+10      16 G
6.87195e+10      64 G
2.74878e+11     256 G
1.09951e+12     1.0 T
4.39805e+12     4.0 T
1.75922e+13      16 T
7.03687e+13      64 T
2.81475e+14     256 T
1.1259e+15      1.0 P
4.5036e+15      4.0 P
1.80144e+16      16 P
7.20576e+16      64 P
2.8823e+17      256 P

The number + scale character is guaranteed to be 5 or less characters
wide, so it's easy to make it tidy.  After peta (shown here), it still
has exa, zetta, and yotta to go :)  This should be sufficient for the
next several decades :)

					-Michael
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