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Fix SI vs IEC prefix table formatting and typos #178

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Expand Up @@ -134,18 +134,19 @@ Specifying resources in Hail Batch is straight forward, if you note that:
- The number of CPUs is restricted to powers of 2 (0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16)
- The memory is intrinsicially tied to the number of CPUs.

> Note the difference between the between Gigabytes (GB) and Gibibytes (GiB), that:
> | Unit | Standard | Binary |
> | - | ----------- | -------------- |
> | k | kB (1000^1) | kiB (1024^1) |
> | M | MB (1000^2) | MiB (1024 ^ 2) |
> | G | GB (1000^3) | GiB (1024 ^ 3) |
> | T | TB (1000^4) | TB (1024 ^ 4) |
> | P | PB (1000^5) | PB (1024 ^ 5) |
Note the difference between the between Gigabytes (GB) and Gibibytes (GiB), thus:

| Unit | Standard | Binary |
| - | ----------- | ------------ |
| k | kB (1000^1) | KiB (1024^1) |
| M | MB (1000^2) | MiB (1024^2) |
| G | GB (1000^3) | GiB (1024^3) |
| T | TB (1000^4) | TiB (1024^4) |
| P | PB (1000^5) | PiB (1024^5) |

There are 3 categories of machines:

- `lowmem`: ` 1 GB (0.902 GiB) / core
- `lowmem`: 1 GB (0.902 GiB) / core
- `standard`: 4 GB (3.8 GiB) / core
- `highmem`: 7 GB (6.5 GiB) / core

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