# Units - Helpful unit multipliers and functions for Go
The goal of this package is to have functionality similar to the [time](http://golang.org/pkg/time/) package.
It allows for code like this:
```go
n, err := ParseBase2Bytes("1KB")
// n == 1024
n = units.Mebibyte * 512
```
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