What is the difference between megabit and megabyte?
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(computing) 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
* 1965 , IBM,
(computing) 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit
One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
* 1964 , IBM,
* 1973 , IBM,
(computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.
* 2003 , Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs , page 933
* 2004 , Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools , page 92
* 2006 , Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed , page 290
Megabyte is a related term of megabit.
In computing terms the difference between megabit and megabyte
is that megabit is 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit while megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.megabit
English
(wikipedia megabit)Noun
(en noun)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.
Synonyms
* Mb * MibCoordinate terms
* bit , kilobit , gigabit , terabit , petabit , exabitSee also
* Mbps ----megabyte
English
(megabyte)Noun
(en noun)System/360 System Summary, page 27
- The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, page 3
- This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
- One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
- Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
- By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
References
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