Yes and no.
A megabyte was originally 220 bytes, as a kilobyte was 210 bytes. 220 is 1,048,576, so a megabyte was 1,048,576 bytes. In the early 1980's, though, sales people for hard drive companies decided that if they arbitrarily defined a megabyte as precisely 1,000,000 bytes, it would make their hard drives seem larger and thus would make them more likely to sell.
Today we still see that same distinction. When you are buying hard drives, they are measured in "marketing megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes," which are precisely 1,000,000 bytes, 1,000,000,000 bytes, and 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, respectively. However, when you are talking about computer memory, or when you ask the operating system (Windows, OSX, or Linux for example) about disk space, the answer you get back will always be counted in old-style megabytes / gigabytes / terabytes. And this is why a 1.5TB hard drive that you buy will only seem to have 1.2TB when you look at it in Windows after you have installed it. The number of bytes will be the same, but a true terabyte, 240 bytes, is larger than the terabytes used to define the drive size for sale.
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A megabyte is exactly 220 bytes in binary. Decimal does not align with binary bit boundaries so the decimal equivalence of binary numbers are always off counts.
20 = 1
21 = 210
22 = 410
23 = 810
24 = 1610
25 = 3210
26 = 6410
27 = 12810
28 = 25610
29 = 51210
210 = 102410
211 = 204810
212 = 409610
213 = 819210
214 = 16,38410
215 = 32,76810
216 = 65,53610
232 = 4,294,967,29610
264 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,61610
2128 = 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+3810
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Yes it is the same.
It's like GB for gigabytes
or TB for terabytes
:D
When someone says Meg, they usually are referencing a Megabyte, which is a term for computer storage.
Meg is not a word. The proper way to say it would be Megabits, Megabytes, Gigabits, and Gigabytes. There are 8 bits in a byte. There are 1024 megabytes in one gigabyte. There are 1024 megabytes in 8 gigabits. This is why meg and gig are not words, even though big companies like Comcast and Optimum say them.
1048576 bytes equal 1 megabyte
The proper noun Meg is a short form of the female given name Meghan or Megan. The slang use of the term "meg" was to represent a "megabyte" of data storage, or as a "megapixel" in digital photography.
it means 8 megabytes (MB). 1meg= 1,048,576 bytes, or about one million bytes.
Megabyte of memory. A pretty small thing nowadays - huge amount in 1993.
8 MegaBytes is equal to 8,192 KiloBytes.
0.00098 Megabytes equals 1 kilobytes
There are 1000 meg in one gig. Therefore the answer is exactly .493613 or approximately one half.
Yes. Meg is short for megabytes per second (mbps) so it is twice as fast
Less than 1mb. There is 1024kb in a meg. 736kb is far less than 1mb.
People often confuse Mg with Mb when measuring data because the word megabyte is abbreviated to meg. Mb stands for Megabyte Mg stands for Milligram two different units for measuring different things.