Review comments for memory size manual clarifications

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@ -655,13 +655,13 @@ is only saved when a clean exit is performed. Sending any signal will cause
Memory sizes in
.B htop
are displayed in a human-readable form.
Sizes are printed in powers of 1024. (e.g., 1023M = 1072693248 Bytes)
If no suffix is shown the units are implicitly KiB.
Sizes are printed in powers of 1024 using binary IEC units.
If no suffix is shown the units are implicitly K as in KiB (kibibyte, 1 KiB = 1024 bytes).
.LP
The decision to use this convention was made in order to conserve screen
space and make memory size representations consistent throughout
.BR htop
as allocations are granular to full memory pages, typically 4KiB.
.B htop
as allocations are granular to full memory pages (4 KiB for most platforms).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR proc (5),
.BR top (1),

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