The iec target uses binary units (powers of 1024), so 1048576 becomes 1.0M, and --suffix=B appends the letter B to yield 1.0MB. This is the exact formatting used by ls -lh for file sizes. The raw number can come from a pipe instead of the argument. Use --from=iec to parse such strings back into plain numbers.
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