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Megabyte (MB) - Definition and Overview

What is Megabyte?

One Megabyte is equal to 10^6 or 1000^2 Bytes. Megabyte is a decimal unit defined as per SI standard. 1 Megabyte = 1000 Kilobytes. The unit symbol for Megabyte is MB. Megabyte is not same as Mebibyte (MiB) that contains 1024^2 bytes. 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB).

Summary

  • A megabyte is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000,000 bytes (10^6)
  • It is a decimal unit defined by the International System of Units (SI)
  • The symbol for megabyte is MB
  • Megabytes are commonly used to measure file sizes and storage capacities
  • It is important to distinguish between megabytes and mebibytes, as the latter is a binary unit equal to 1,048,576 bytes (1024^2).

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