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Mebibyte

2^(20)=1024^2=1048576 bytes. Although the term megabyte is almost universally used to refer to 1024^2 bytes, such usage is deprecated in favor of the standard SI naming convention of 1 megabyte being equal to 10^6 bytes.

See also

Byte, Exbibyte, Gibibyte, Kibibyte, Megabyte, Pebibyte, Tebibyte

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References

National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Mebibyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Mebibyte.html

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