1000000 bytes equals 1 megabyte yet 1024 megabytes equals 1 gigabyte?

Answer 1

There are two definitions. The official definition says: * 1,000 × 1,000 bytes (B) = 1,000,000 B = 1 megabyte (MB) * 1,000 (MB) = 1 gigabyte (GB). This is the definition used for hard drives, DVDs, networking, and everything else. There is also another definition based on 1024 instead of 1000, so 1,024 "megabytes" are equal to 1 "gigabyte". These are used for memory. These are more correctly referred to with MiB and GiB instead of MB and GB: * 1,024 × 1,024 B = 1,048,576 B = 1 MiB * 1,024 MiB = 1 GiB

Answer 2

1024 MB is one Gigabyte.

So to answer your question, 1MB is equal to 1/1024 GB
One gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.

So to answer your question, there are 1/1024 gigabytes in a megabyte, or 0.0009765625 gigabytes.

Answer 3

The key to understanding this principle is that computers use the binary number system (0's and 1's). Therefore, any time you want to get 1,000 of a certain number (1,000 being a base 10 number), you must get 2^10 (2 to the tenth power) which is 1,024. Technically, 1 GB is slightly larger than 1,024 MB at 1,073,741,824 bytes which is 2^30; but, for sake of simplicity, people normally round the number. Some people use the denary system which uses base ten and makes life more simple for us humans. In denary, 1 GB = 1,000 MB.

Answer 4

1048576 bytes make up a megabyte