On 2016-08-31 05:08, Ken Kundert wrote:
What's the mnemonic here? Why "r" for scale factor?

My thinking was that r stands for real like f stands for float.
With the base 2 scale factors, b stands for binary.

'b' already means binary:

>>> '{:b}'.format(100)
'1100100'

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