Megabaud vs Megabit - What's the difference?

In computing terms the difference between megabaud and megabit

is that megabaud is one million baud while megabit is 2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit.

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(computing) one million baud

(wikipedia megabit)

(en noun)

(computing) 10⁶ = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)

* 1965 , IBM, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive , page 3-27

When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits /sec.

(computing) 2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit

* Mb * Mib

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