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What is the difference between megebyte and mebibyte?

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megabyte (note correct spelling) = 10⁶ bytes = 1,000,000 bytes

mebibyte = 2²⁰ bytes = 1,048,576 bytes

Historically megabyte has been used to mean both values (and others, such as 1,1024,000).

Mebibyte is unambiguously the binary-based value, but it is not widely used and megabyte continues to be used to for both meanings.

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