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Megabyte


One million (10^6) bytes. Unfortunately, the term is sometimes also used to mean 2^(20)=1024^2=1048576 bytes. Furthermore, a third meaning of the term refers to 1024000 bytes when formatting 3.5-inch 1.44-"megabyte" floppy disks. However, the latter usages are deprecated, and the term mebibyte is preferred for 1024^2 bytes.


See also

Byte, Gigabyte, Kilobyte, Mebibyte, Million, Terabyte

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References

Barrow, B. "A Lesson in Megabytes." IEEE Standards Bearer 11, 5, Jan. 1997.National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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

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