Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes?

[Xin LI]

FYI I have a patch and I have incorporated some of Alexander's idea.

Difference:

 - Use of both HN_DIVISOR_1000 and HN_IEC_PREFIXES triggers an
assertion.  I think it doesn't make sense to return since this is an
API violation and we should just tell the caller explicitly;
 - DIVISOR_1000 and !1000 cases use just same prefixes, so merge them
while keeping divisor intact;
 - Make prefixes table consistently long.  I have no strong opinion on
this one, though, it's just what my original version used and I can
change it to the way Alexander did if there is an advantage of doing
that way.

(Note, it seems that we use HN_ prefix for both 'scale' and 'flags', I
have sorted them by value but HN_IEC_PREFIXES should really belong to
the flags group).

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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