Background
You most probably know, that the kilo used by IT-People differs from the kilo used by the rest of the world. Whereas kilo in kB is (mostly) interpreted as 1024 Bytes (especially by operating systems) the non-IT kilo denotes the factor 1000 (as in "1 kg is 1000g"). The same goes for the prefixes mega, giga, tera, peta and so on. To avoid misunderstandings (like your hardware shop selling you a 1E+12 Byte hard disk as 1 TB, whereas your Windows states that it has only 932 GB, because the shop uses factor 1000 whereas operating systems use factor 1024 by default) the International Electrotechnical Commission has proposed to use kibibyte for 1024 Byte.The according unit symbol would be KiB. Other Prefixes would be respectively:
1 MiB = 1024 KiB
1 GiB = 1024 MiB
1 TiB = 1024 GiB
Task
Your task is to write a conversion function between the kB and the KiB-Units. The function receives as parameter a memory size including a unit and converts into the corresponding unit of the other system:
memorysizeConversion ( "10 KiB") -> "10.24 kB"
memorysizeConversion ( "1 kB") -> "0.977 KiB"
memorysizeConversion ( "10 TB") -> "9.095 TiB"
memorysizeConversion ( "4.1 GiB") -> "4.402 GB"
Hints
- the parameter always contains a (fractioned) number, a whitespace and a valid unit
- units are case-sensitive, valid units are kB MB GB TB KiB MiB GiB TiB
- result must be rounded to 3 decimals (round half up,no trailing zeros) see examples above
Resources
If you want to read more on ...ibi-Units:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte