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+module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
+  module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
+    module Numeric #:nodoc:
+      # Enables the use of byte calculations and declarations, like 45.bytes + 2.6.megabytes
+      module Bytes
+        def bytes
+          self
+        end
+        alias :byte :bytes
+
+        def kilobytes
+          self * 1024
+        end
+        alias :kilobyte :kilobytes
+
+        def megabytes
+          self * 1024.kilobytes
+        end
+        alias :megabyte :megabytes
+
+        def gigabytes
+          self * 1024.megabytes 
+        end
+        alias :gigabyte :gigabytes
+
+        def terabytes
+          self * 1024.gigabytes
+        end
+        alias :terabyte :terabytes
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end