I have read the documentation and cannot find any mention of what these figures are or how to limit size figures to the common units, whether powers of two or ten. I would like sizes to be displayed the way they are by tools like ls, where human-readable means bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or bytes, kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes. Instead a size of 2402 MB is displayed by default as ’18e’, 1744 MB is displayed as ‘2g’, and 406 MB is displayed as ‘18447p’.

If there is no option to change this, could anyone tell me what ’18e’ means? What manner of unit are ‘e’ and ‘p’?

Reading the documentation, googling, searching StackOverflow.