Are there any cell custom data formats for MB, GB, and TB storage sizes, especially decimal (used by storage manufacturers) not binary (used by filesystems)?
I'm using Numbers 3.5 to do a quick-and-dirty calculation before I buy an external hard drive. Rather than do each calculation manually I thought it would be better to have a sheet containing prices and drive sizes for every drive I'm considering buying. To accomplish this neatly, and to incorporate multiple orders of magnitude (GB, TB) into the list, it might be useful to define a custom data format to the Numbers app.
Unfortunately, actually creating a custom format of this kind incorporates multiple comparative changes that would be difficult to figure out, and I'm not sure I want to reinvent the wheel if something like this is already in existence.
This explains my question, I think. Are there any Custom Formats available for download which can handle the storage space unit (e.g. GB, TB) of data? This isn't a totally abnormal type of calculation or data type to be handling. A calculation program like Numbers should come equipped with the ability to handle all SI International System of Units measurements and conversions, I think. That or just the most frequently used.
To access the included data formats, select a cell in your table and [click] the [Cell] tab on the right side bar near the top. The first menu is "Data Format" and offers a drop-down list of pre-installed formats. There you will find the "Number", "Currency", "Percentage", etc. formats, but no "-Byte" size.
To the numerically inclined,
Aaron Palmer
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)