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Megabyte

A ‘Mb‘ is the unit symbol for the Megabyte. A Megabyte is a made up of multiple unit bytes, which stores the digital information and denotes the size of data. A byte is a size, which is made up of 8 bits. A bit is a single unit of data. It can be ‘0’ or ‘1’. And, the short form of Megabyte is Mbyte or meg.

In the word megabyte, mega denotes the sixth power of 10, which means 106.

1 Megabyte is equivalent to the following values:

  • 106 bytes (B),
  • 1,000,000 bytes (B),
  • 220 bytes (B),
  • 1,024 kilobytes (Kb) or
  • 1,048,576 bytes.

A megabyte is that unit which is larger than a kilobyte (Kb) and smaller than the unit gigabyte (Gb). A megabyte is used for measuring the size of large files. It also measures the text format, bitmap images, video files, or compressed/uncompressed audio files. The capacity of CD (compact disk) is measured in megabytes.

Other data units to Megabyte conversion

Following list shows the values of megabytes in other data units:

S.No. Other Units Values in Megabytes
1. 1 Bit equals to 1.25e-7 Megabytes
2. 1 Kilobit equals to 0.000125 Megabytes
3. 1 Kibibit equals to 0.000128 Megabytes
4. 1 Megabit equals to 0.125 Megabytes
5. 1 Mebibit equals to 0.131072 Megabytes
6. 1 Gigabit equals to 125 Megabytes
7. 1 Gibibit equals to 134.218 Megabytes
8. 1 Terabit equals to 125000 Megabytes
9. 1 Tebibit equals to 137439 Megabytes
10. 1 Petabit equals to 1.25e+8 Megabytes
11. 1 Pebibit equals to 1.407e+8 Megabytes
12. 1 exabit equals to 125000000000 Megabytes
13. 1 Exbibit equals to 144115188075.86 Megabytes
14. 1 Yobibits equals to 1.511e+17 Megabytes
15. 1 Nibble equals to 5.0e-7 megabytes
16. 1 Byte equals to 1e-6 Megabytes
17. 1 Kilobyte equals to 0.001 Megabytes
18. 1 Kibibyte equals to 0.001024 Megabytes
19. 1 Megabyte equals to 1 Megabytes
20. 1 Mebibytes equals to 1.04858 Megabytes
21. 1 Gigabytes equals to 1000 Megabytes
22. 1 Gibibytes equals to 1073.74 Megabytes
23. 1 Terabytes equals to 1e+6 Megabytes
24. 1 Tebibytes equals to 1.1e+6 Megabytes
25. 1 Petabytes equals to 1e+9 Megabytes
26. 1 Pebibytes equals to 1.126e+9 Megabytes
27. 1 exabytes equals to 1000000000000 Megabytes
28. 1 Exbibytes equals to 1.153e+12 Megabytes
29. 1 Zettabytes equals to 1.0e+15 Megabytes
30. 1 Yottabytes equals to 1.0e+18 Megabytes
31. 1 Yobibytes equals to 1.2089258196146e+18 Megabytes

Conversion of 1 Megabyte into some common data-storage units

Following list shows the conversion of 1 megabyte into other common data storage units:

S.No. 1 megabytes Common data storage units
1. 1 MB equals to 8000000 bits (bit)
2. 1 MB equals to 8000 kilobits (kbit)
3. 1 MB equals to 8 megabits (Mbit)
4. 1 MB equals to 0.008 gigabits (Gbit)
5. 1 MB equals to 8.0E-6 terabits (Tbit)
6. 1 MB equals to 1000000 bytes (B)
7. 1 MB equals to 1000 kilobytes (KB)
8. 1 MB equals to 1 megabytes (MB)
9. 1 MB equals to 0.001 gigabytes (GB)
10. 1 MB equals to 1.0E-6 terabytes (TB)

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