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How many is a mega?

Updated: 10/3/2023
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9y ago

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Typically "Mega" refers to "million", but in the case of computers this is not exactly so. 1 Megabyte is eual to 1,024 Kilobytes. So technically speaking, in the case of computers, 1 Megabyte is 1048576 bytes, answering your question.

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Mega is 1,000,000 when you're talking about metric measurements ie. 1 megahertz would be 1,000,000 hertz, computer mathematics "mega" is x2^20 (2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2) which is 1,048,576 so 1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes

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