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  Megabyte - MB

Megabyte - MB

This is a measurement used in digital systems such as PCs to describe storage capacity (usually RAM, Hard Drive capacity is mostly stated in Gigabytes these days).

Mathematically one Megabyte is 220 (1,048,576)

One megabyte is equal to 1024 Kilobytes, so a memory module with a capacity of 256MB can store 268,435,456 Bytes.

For more about bits and bytes see our guide to Binary Numbers.
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