File and disk sizes in OS X

[Nightfox]

Has anyone noticed that Apple's OS X reports file & disk sizes differently than
the norm for other OSes? Some time ago, when I had a Mac, I noticed that OS X
reports file & disk sizes using multiples of 10 (for instance: 1,000 bytes =
1KB and 1,000,000 bytes = 1MB). That's different from what most other OSes use
(1,024 bytes = 1KB and 1,048,576 bytes = 1MB). The result is that OS X reports
file & disk sizes differently (for files 1KB and greater) - The sizes that will
appear in OS X are larger than what will appear in other operating systems.

Does anyone have an idea of why Apple would do that? The only reason I can
think of is perhaps they think it's more natural to think of file sizes that
way, or perhaps to go along with hard drive manufacturers who started reporting
their drive sizes that way some time ago. But I think it would cause
confusion, since it's different from how other operating systems report file &
disk sizes.

Nightfox
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