1000 kilobytes are in a megabyte and 1000 megabytes are in a gigabyte. These are the storage industry standards.However, megabytes as displayed by an operating system are actually measured in binary...
You can think of this in two different ways, the computer way (1024) or the human way, (1000). In normal conversation, which is now depreciated Computer Science, it refers to the following: bit = '0'...