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What (who) is megabyte - definition

MULTIPLE OF THE UNIT BYTE
Mega byte; Mbyte; Megabytes; MegaByte; Mega Byte; Mega-byte; Mega-Byte; M-byte; ㎆; MegaBytes; Megabite; M,egabyte; MB (symbol); MB (computing); MByte
  • 1.44 MB [[floppy disk]]s can store 1,474,560 bytes of data. MB in this context means 1,000×1,024 bytes.

megabyte         
(megabytes)
In computing, a megabyte is one million bytes of data.
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megabyte         
(abbrev.: Mb or MB)
¦ noun Computing a unit of information equal to one million or (strictly) 1,048,576 bytes.
megabyte         
<unit> (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 kilobytes. 1024 megabytes are one gigabyte. The text of a six hundred page paperback book would require about a megabyte of ASCII storage. See prefix. (1997-03-26)

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB. The unit prefix mega is a multiplier of 1000000 (106) in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one megabyte is one million bytes of information. This definition has been incorporated into the International System of Quantities.

In the computer and information technology fields, other definitions have been used that arose for historical reasons of convenience. A common usage has been to designate one megabyte as 1048576bytes (220 B), a quantity that conveniently expresses the binary architecture of digital computer memory. The standards bodies have deprecated this usage of the megabyte in favor of a new set of binary prefixes, in which this quantity is designated by the unit mebibyte (MiB).

Examples of use of megabyte
1. Downloading a 1–megabyte photograph (1,024 kilobytes) will cost NIS 37 to NIS 73 in Italy.
2. Each one gigabyte of download bandwidth equals 1,024 megabytes, where each one megabyte includes 1,024 kilobytes.
3. The new fiber–optic network will offer up to 30 megabyte (30 million bits of data) per second.
4. In Philadelphia, which aims to have its network operating next autumn, residents will initially be offered the relatively slow broadband speed of one megabyte.
5. The President also pointed out that the bandwidth cost was dollars 87,000 for two megabyte and today it is dollar 2,500.