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Megaflop vs Megabyte - What's the difference?

megaflop | megabyte |

In computing terms the difference between megaflop and megabyte

is that megaflop is a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second while megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.

megaflop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second.
  • (informal) A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure.

    • See also

    *FLOPS

    megabyte

    English

    (megabyte)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
  • * 1964 , IBM, 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.
  • * 1973 , IBM, 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.
  • (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.
  • * 2003 , Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs , page 933
    • One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
  • * 2004 , Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools , page 92
    • Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
  • * 2006 , Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed , page 290
    • By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

    Related terms

    * Previous: kilobyte * Next: gigabyte * MB * Mb * mebibyte * megabit

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----