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## On Windows use the full path since convert
## is also the name of a system tool.
#animation.convert_args: ## Additional arguments to pass to convert
#animation.embed_limit : 20.0
#animation.embed_limit : 20.0 ## Limit, in MB, of size of base64 encoded
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The limit is in MiB, not MB, and everything really should be fixed to say that.

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While technically, you are right, I tend not to change that. MB is still more well known and understandable to non computer science affine users than MiB.

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This is a tough one. I have sympathy for the idea of helping maintain an international standard. On the other hand, I had to look up if MiB was different than MB.

## animation in HTML (i.e. IPython notebook)
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