Why does anaconda GUI partition panel show 1MB smaller than whole disk size?

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Issue

  • Why does anaconda GUI partition panel show 1MB smaller than whole disk size?

For example, in this image, vda is 16384MiB. On the other hand, in partition scheme window, the size is 16383MiB. It has 1MB gap between the size in whole disk size and the size in partition scheme.
Anaconda partition scheme

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • anaconda

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