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Megabyte

Definition: The unit byte for digital information storage or transmission and is equal to 10^6.
Usage: I have 128 Megabytes of memory.
Posted by Djo on June 6, 2009 at 17:50:53 Pacific

Megabyte

Definition: Technically 1,048,576 bytes of storage, whether in short term memory such as RAM, or long term storage such as a hard drive. The number is derived from powers of 2 and represents 2^20. Many manufacturers started referring to MB as 1,000,000 (10^6) bytes which has led to confusion as well as lawsuits.
Usage: My graphics card has 512 MB (megabytes) of memory.
Posted by steveho on August 18, 2009 at 05:55:43 Pacific

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