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  • You’re not wrong- but when the change happened, it seemed to be around the time HDD manufacturers started taking flak for selling high capacity drives that didn’t match formatted capacity by larger and larger margins. OS level files sizes were always 2^n - it was a real PitA when Apple switched to base 10 for gui size reporting. I believe terminal utilities still measure file size in 1024 bytes.